People online have speculated that the cattle on this dairy farm would have been safe had they not been confined to holding pens. People are becoming more aware of the dangers of these CAFOs ...

Cows at Dutch Hollow Farm which is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) on Wednesday, Aug. ... [+] 7, 2013 in Schodack Landing, N.Y. (Photo by Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty ...

When dairy farmers build, the intention goes beyond mere infrastructure. It’s about securing a legacy and ensuring the farm’s ...

Larger livestock operations can be a thorny issue in rural areas and South Dakota lawmakers are proposing restricting feedlot details with more communities poised to debate the projects. A Senate bill ...

Proposed legislation aimed at protecting South Dakota farmers from potential "agro-terrorism" activities could have a ...

“Key facts” are: There are fewer dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley, but there are more cows. Now, CAFOs milk several thousand cows instead of several hundred cows. Keep in mind that for every ...

1. “Large CAFO” is defined as an operation that confines not less than (A) 700 mature dairy cows; 1,000 veal calves; 1,000 cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; 2,500 weighing more than ...

Industrial agriculture has severe health and environmental impacts. Cutting back on factory farming is the only effective way to save ourselves and our planet.

they can operate 10 farms with 3,000 cows. She points to North Carolina, a state that passed a swine farm moratorium in 2007, yet the number of CAFOs has ballooned in recent years. She added that ...

CAFO workers take extensive precautions to keep ... At least 16 states have confirmed bird flu outbreaks in cattle, putting Nebraska’s $11 billion beef industry and thousands of Nebraska ...

Concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are large livestock operations where several hundred or even tens of thousands of cattle, hogs, chickens and turkeys are fed within a single farm ...