Created: August 03, 2021 05:27 PM
A massive hog farm in Burnett County, Wisconsin continues to push forward. Cumberland, LLC, has submitted paperwork to turn 277,000 square feet of farmland into a 26,000-head hog operation. There s a lot more to this than what is in front of you, so I think we need to slow way down, one resident said Tuesday morning in Siren.
It was a packed room, with residents of Burnett County and neighboring counties showing up with signs in hand to share their concerns about a massive hog operation that wants to open in Trade Lake, just southwest of Siren. They are a for-profit company, they re based in China and they really don t care about the environment here, another resident said.
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With the growing size of farms and the increasing number of concentrated animal feeding operations CAFOs in Minnesota and Wisconsin, many people have expressed concerns about the effects that industrial agriculture operations may have on land, water, and environment, as well as animal and human health.Â
âWhen we are talking about large CAFOs, we think about the impacts they can have on the land and the water and the karst system, and it always comes down to management,â said Martin Larsen, who owns a farm near Byron, Minn. âYou can have a top notch manager of a large CAFO who can manage that farm cleaner than a small or midsize animal feedlot, but with that size comes responsibility. They have such a large potential for pollution.â
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County board learns limits of managing large-scale livestock operations
Burnett County, the home of several St. Croix River tributaries, receives recommendations to regulate industrial agriculture.
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Howard Pahl lives in the rural township of Trade Lake, Wisc., which he’s called home since 1978. He’s one of only a few; the 36-square mile township is home to just 823 people.
Most of the township and its residents are downwind of a proposed industrial swine facility that has put them on defense. Pahl spoke to the Burnett County board of supervisors at their recent meeting to discuss Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that have their sights set on the county.