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Article: Counting cows: Counties try to cope as dairies keep coming.
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- The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2007
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Byline: Matt Christensen
Jan. 15--TWIN FALLS -- As controversy intensifies over confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, every Magic Valley county but two brought new cows into the valley in 2006.
Dairymen say there is still room for growth here, where cows outnumber people by a ratio of about 7-to-1. But a long-growing anti-CAFO movement, largely championed by property owners adjacent to existing or proposed CAFOs, set the stage last year for showdowns in several of Magic Valley's most CAFO-friendly counties.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, CAFOs are point sources for pollution because animals are contained in small areas ...