Farmers Attack Bill On Livestock Operations; Some Say Measure Will Allow for More Megafarms

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 24, 2004

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MADISON (AP) - Farmers attacked a Republican bill that would create statewide standards for setting up and expanding livestock operations, arguing Monday that the measure opens the way for more megafarms and strips local officials of decision-making power.

But the state's largest farm organization, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, endorsed the changes.

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Farmers Attack Bill On Livestock Operations; Some Say Measure Will Allow for More Megafarms

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