Nov 6, 2025
Communities across Wisconsin are feeling the effects of huge factory farm expansions. Our health and property are at risk. State laws do almost nothing to protect us. That’s why people across the political spectrum are organizing to pass local factory farm...
Nov 6, 2025
A new study provides a fairly grim Outlook to local residents when the pollution from industrial farms reaches their Wells. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qZTf1X6_g37ZiOv8Y9pAB9TH2bgVe-Pv/view?usp=drivesdk We are doing our best to keep this from happening to you and...
Oct 28, 2025
Is a farm waste biogas plant coming to a town near you? Seems like California is financing a whole bunch of them. Check it out! https://foodandwater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=a40e6dc32bfa4165af469b3a648d4a76 Biogas plants concentrate the...
Oct 28, 2025
Smithfield Foods, now owned by the WH Group, apparently owns one of every four pigs in the United States. Is that a problem? https://share.google/Xcw777keHKLaf8gcc It’s something we have known for a while, but hopefully others are waking up. The KnowCAFOs...
Oct 23, 2025
Municipal water systems surely represent a lot of humans, but rural well owners have few options to resolve a polluted well. Maybe they deserve some consideration? DNR Highlights Importance Of State Revolving Fund Programs For Clean, Safe Water In Wisconsin...
Oct 11, 2025
I’m sure we all remember the Bill that Governor Evers vetoed a couple years back that attempted to make local ordinances around farming illegal. The following article explains that it might be back in 2026. It also discusses another County’s attempt to...
Oct 10, 2025
While we are not running into this situation currently, it is important to keep an eye on it because of the potentially deleterious effect it could have on our water. The following article is from Michigan and Chronicles problems arising with siting and operations of...
Oct 9, 2025
Sure enough, another day another study. Maybe somebody will take a look at the rules one day and make some adjustments to defend our water from the obvious. Here’s the article. https://www.wuwm.com/nitrate-runoff-agriculture-clean-drinking-water-wisconsin Thanks...
Oct 7, 2025
A study in Michigan recently discovered what we already knew: CAFOs pollute. Whether our concern is air, water, traffic, light or just noise pollution, CAFOs have it all. The following article and sub-articles connected to it are a nice source of information on the...
Sep 26, 2025
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