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What data on 11K farms reveals about the country’s factory farm hotbed
The analysis links dense livestock operations to pollution and weak oversight, with some counties hosting far more factory farms than others, researchers said.
Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, soy and other crops can absorb. This has a devastating effect on the state’s water. When too much manure is