DES MOINES | The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reports 88 of 99 Iowa counties plan to evaluate construction permit applications and proposed locations for animal confinements by using the ...

WEST UNION, Iowa -- Livestock producers and environmentalists disagreed last week on what the passing score should be on the master matrix during a statewide public hearing. Several county supervisors ...

Mitchell County is a farm/livestock producing county and I don't see that changing. This denial was not a change in our view of producers but merely due diligence on our part following the December ...

On Feb. 19, moments before a winter storm swept through Central Iowa, there was a stormy mix of points and counterpoints at a contentious Story County Board of Supervisors special meeting on the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Iowans concerned with the proliferation of large-scale animal feeding operations are beating the drum for changes that include local control for counties and changes to Iowa's master ...

The master matrix, which was discussed Sept.r 16 by DNR's Environmental Protection Commission, seems tailor-made to increase resentment of government bureaucracy while doing nothing to slow the spread ...

SIOUX CITY -- A new hog confinement is planned to open later this year in southeast Woodbury County, after the county board of supervisors approved an application that showed the unit passed the ...