CAFO builder in Wayne County suffers setback
Natural Pork Production II, the Harlan, Iowa farming group who was granted a special exception for a CAFO to contain 11,200 sows in Wayne County, recently suffered a setback in their home state:
The Environmental Protection Commission voted 5-1 on Monday to deny the application from Tom and Kelly Doeden, who farm near Sibley.
The Doedens proposed the construction of two hog confinement buildings northeast of Sibley, about four miles south of the Iowa-Minnesota state line, said Iowa Department of Natural Resources attorney Randy Clark.
Their application did not meet minimum state laws because it failed to include a phosphorous index the manure management plan, the EPC concluded. The phosphorous index is a way to determine how much manure from the confinement buildings can be safely spread onto nearby farm fields as a soil nutrient. Phosphorous measurements were required in legislation passed in 2002.
