Groups which oppose large-scale hog confinements plan a statehouse rallytomorrow. This morning, the “Citizen Task Force on Concentrated Livestock”staged a news conference to discuss recent studies on the topic. IowaFarmers Union spokesman Aaron Heley Lehman says legislators need to establish new standards for earthen lagoons which hold livestock manure.Iowa Family Farm Coalition director Joe Weisshaar of Creston saysthe pork industry is now dominated by just a few, large-scale operators.Weisshaar says legislators need to enact laws which protect small farmersfrom the predatory practices of agri-business monopolies.
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