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About two dozen environmental and consumer groups are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate large dairy and hog farms under federal air pollution laws, according to a report by the American Ag Network. Iowa has over 5,000 hog farms (as of 2020) according to the Iowa Pork Producers Association, and 1,360 licensed dairy farms according to the ISDA. That makes Iowa the 12th largest milk-producing state in the United States.
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According to the report, groups including the Sierra Club and the Government Accountability Project say in their petition that,
The EPA has the duty and authority to regulate these methane super-emitters under the Clean Air Act as part of the administration’s larger strategy to prevent catastrophic and irreversible climate change.
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OMAHA (DTN) Lee Reichmuth, who runs a cattle feedyard near Lindsay, Nebraska, recalls a year ago seeing “records broken” in cattle markets, such as boxed beef price moving from a little more than $2 a pound to the range of $4.75 a pound while, at the same time, the April futures contract for fed cattle took a $40 dip in value.
A year ago, as much of the country was in lockdown, the supply chain for meat buckled as workers by the hundreds at packing plants across the country tested positive for COVID-19, causing both beef and pork packing plants to shut down across the Midwest and Plains. By the third week of April, the packing crisis had shredded as much as 25% of meat-processing capacity nationally.
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The Iowa Pork Producers Association is pleased with State Senate Sub-committee approval of House File 775, the trespass bill, IPPA Public Policy Director Drew Mogler says the measure protects everyone’s private property, ag and non-ag alike.
He says there is broad support for this legislation which provides protections for private property.
Mogler says because the way the legislation is written, it should withstand any court challenge charging it’s an infringement on First Amendment Constitutional rights.
Mogler says it’s crazy for groups to oppose HF 775 because by opposing it they’re condoning criminal activity and trespassing on private property.