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Does Ohio have a poop problem? Debate over fertilizer continues two years into H2Ohio initiative Grace Deng, The Columbus Dispatch © File Gov. Mike DeWine's H2Ohio initiative is supposed to clean up Lake Erie and other Ohio waterways through several avenues, including a program incentivizing farmers to improve how manure is spread and reduce phosphorus runoff that contributes to algae blooms. When Terry and Ernest Bateson hear rumbling, they know the trucks are coming.  Every year, semi-trucks filled to the brim with liquid manure drive by the retired farmers' home in ...

When Terry and Ernest Bateson hear rumbling, they know the trucks are coming.  Every year, semi-trucks filled to the brim with liquid manure drive by the retired farmers' home in Wood County's Portage Township. The semi-trucks are carrying waste from the CAFOs, or "concentrated animal feeding operations" – in layman's terms, factory farms.  "The road turns brown from the spillage," Ernest Bateson said.  The number of animals in the Maumee watershed has doubled from 9 to 20 million from 2005 to 2018, a study by environmental advocates found. More animals mean more poop – and the...