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"We Can't Milk Our Way Out of This”: CAFOs in Wisconsin

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

May 31, 2019

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Republican legislators voted to postpone an Evers proposal to increase fees and oversight on large concentrated animal feeding operations. Weighing in on how the proposal would affect farmers in the state are Wisconsin Dairy Alliance President Cindy Leitner and Fred Clark of Wisconsin’s Green Fire.

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