Jan 5, 2022
A Battle Brews in Rural Wisconsin Over Factory Farms The Daily Yonder by Leah Douglas December 12, 2019 A community divided. A local official accused of self-dealing. A top political appointee ousted from his job. In Wisconsin, a state where the footprint of...
Jan 3, 2022
CAFOs and Trout
Dec 20, 2021
The Good News: your support has paid off and we were able to extend our lease on two billboards and also change their faces to a message we believe is inclusive of the entire community. The Bad News? We were unable to afford to keep the billboards on Highway 70 and...
Dec 18, 2021
Please see an interactive map that should be helpful on the Cumberland permit. This was developed as part of the failed effort to revise the Runoff Management Rule NR 151. Interactive map Take a look at the Nitrogen and Liquid Manure Viewer interactive Maps. Large...
Dec 9, 2021
WISCONSIN WETLANDS AT RISK The article is a photo copy from the Country Today. Sorry for the quality, but the information was valuable enough to pass on.
Nov 16, 2021
CUMBERLAND FILES WETLAND PERMIT For what it’s worth, Cumberland LLC has refiled it’s wetland documentation, presumably to avoid the cost of reconfiguring it’s buildings to avoid the wetland. Feel free to sort through the documents. Just keeping you...
Nov 8, 2021
CAFO CAP
Oct 29, 2021
Standing Up for Outstanding Waters: A CAFO Update. From Deb Ryun, Wild River Conservancy Cumberland LLC has applied for a permit to build a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) for hogs, near Trade Lake, in Burnett County, WI. It’s estimated that this hog factory...
Oct 22, 2021
WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION ON CAFOS, POLK, BURNETT AND BEYOND This is the newsletter of the Wisconsin Farmers Union which makes some interesting reading. The article on pages 21-24 concerns concentrated animal feeding operations in both Polk and Burnett Counties. It...
Oct 19, 2021
Trade Lake, Laketown, Eureka, Bone Lake, Luck and now Sterling Townships have joined the Consortium to create an Operations Ordinance to protect their families. CAFOs are notorious for fouling the air and drinking water resources wherever they land. Yet, that’s...
