Below are highlights from an article published on the WSAU.com on September 17, 2019.
Groups representing the state’s ag producers are not happy with proposed revisions to the state’s livestock siting standards.
Cyndi Leitner is President of the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance, she says “The fact that there was not even one farmer on the tech committee that proposed the revisions, should speak loudly. The primary stakeholders were ignored.
“We’ve changed this from being a state-run type of a rule to, in this proposed revision, to changing it to have more and more local authority. And that’s exactly what we didn’t want to do with the rule,” Leitner said. “If this comes through, with the climate that we have today, with all the anti-CAFO stuff that’s going today, I can assure you that every county and town is going to adopt this, because it will give them control.”
Read the article in its entirety at https://wsau.com/news/articles/2019/sep/17/farmers-oppose-new-livestock-siting-rules/938088/
