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JULY
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July and August meetings on Minnesota NPDES permit The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency feedlot program has scheduled a series of meetings to receive input from livestock producers about proposed changes in the next five-year (2011-2016) general operating permit for large feedlots, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). MORE |
Waive ethanol mandate, urges NPPC Pork Industry Joins Texas In Asking EPA To Suspend Renewable Fuels Standard With rising pressures on this year’s corn crop, which now have been ratcheted up because of flooding in the Midwest, and the prospect of significant numbers of pork producers going out of business from the resulting higher feed costs, the National Pork Producers Council called for the federally-mandated target for corn-based ethanol production to be cut in half. MORE |