As professionals, we have documented how CAFOs have sickened and hurt Iowans, and we want to find answers, write Tom Harkin and James Merchant. Des Moines Register Let's talk about solutions.

For example, a CAFO includes operations with at least 1,000 cattle, 2,500 swine, or 125,000 chickens. Just more than half of all confined feeding operations are CAFOs. Editorial Board.

CAFOs are one the largest pollutants of groundwater and air as they widely generate, store, and apply large amounts of liquid manure–mostly in the form of waste lagoons. Currently, there are no ...

OPINION: Attending to CAFOs has to include support for crop growers Favoring agribusiness over Iowa’s farmers, and hiding it with inadequate farm subsidies, has been an authoritarian approach.

Environmental groups challenge the EPA's 2023 decision to deny a petition for stricter regulations, arguing that the agency is neglecting its duty to control CAFO pollution.

The CAFO permit was recently released by the DNR, and residents are worried that the local geography, which consists of porous rock, making it easy for contamination to seep into the groundwater ...

The applications say the CAFOs will “export” their waste. State CAFO rules do not regulate waste exported to third parties — applied to land not controlled by the CAFOs that produce it.

Concentrated animal feeding operations. CAFOs are defined by the EPA as intensive feeding operations where many animals are confined and fed for at least 45 days per year (though it can be much more) ...

Since 2023, Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, and Newton counties in the southwest corner of Missouri have been targeted for 22 new poultry concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), each ...

As professionals, we have documented how CAFOs have sickened and hurt Iowans, and we want to find answers, write Tom Harkin and James Merchant.

As professionals, we have documented how CAFOs have sickened and hurt Iowans, and we want to find answers, write Tom Harkin and James Merchant. We've seen the consequences of CAFOs up close. Let's ...