Feeding Operations A Threat To WatershedPosted: July 4, 2014 at 1:30 a.m. I support the proposed ban of medium and large concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in the Buffalo River watershed. This action would be a step in the right direction to protect our state from the well-documented harm […]

Virus Plagues the Pork Industry, and EnvironmentalistsBy STEPHANIE STROM  JULY 4, 2014  A deadly virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PEDv, is estimated to have killed, on average, more than 100,000 piglets and young hogs each week since it first showed up in Iowa in May 2013, wreaking havoc on the […]