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Iowa has a poop problem.

Share this: Pigs are raised at a hog operation in Hawarden, Iowa. Lawmakers in Iowa and a handful of other states, frustrated by agricultural regulations they say don’t adequately protect water and air quality, have filed legislation to ban new or expanded large-scale farms. (Nati Harnik The Associated Press) Iowa has a poop problem. The Hawkeye State’s pigs, cows and chickens produce about as much waste as 134 million people—nearly the population of Russia. Most of that manure is spread...