In Indiana, a "big" animal operaton is a called a Confined Feeding Operation, or CFO. 300 head of cattle, 600 hogs or sheep, or 30,000 birds fall under these rules. A "BTO" operation is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, or CAFO. Those include 700 mature dairy cows, 1,000 veal calves, 1,000 cattle other than mature dairy cows, 2,500 swine above 55 pounds, 10,000 swine less than 55 pounds, 500 horses, 10,000 sheep or lambs, 55,000 turkeys, 30,000 laying hens or broilers with a liquid manure handling system, 125,000 broilers with a solid manure handling system, 82,000 laying hens with a solid manure handling system, 30,000 ducks with a solid manure handling system, or 5,000 ducks with a liquid manure handling system fall under those. That's as I type this today. The rules are always changing. I'm not going into all of the rules, but they are easily found online. There will be very few new CFO's because of the money involved to comply with the rules. It pays, so to speak, to go big, or stay out of it all together.
Also, the smaller-sized animal farmers that are exempt today from many rules and regulations may think they have it made. They seem not to consider that when the regulators have finished nailing these "industrial farms" to the wall, the regulators likely are coming after them.
This ruling, if upheld, effects every livestock farmer, with one animal, or thousands.
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 13:18:10 01/18/15 2 times.
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