Lawmakers OK Expanding Privacy on Feedlot Manure
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Water
By
Simmi Aujla
Idaho Statesman
March 09, 2010
Idaho's cattle industry is raising a stink in hopes of restricting public access to the state's oversight of feedlot manure operations.
BOISE, Idaho—The Idaho cattle industry is raising a stink in hopes of restricting public access to the state's oversight of feedlot manure operations.
The Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee voted 6-2 Tuesday to bar public access to the reports done once or twice a year by the Department of Agriculture on beef cattle feedlots across the state. The Idaho Cattle Association had lobbied to make the routine feedlot inspection reports confidential.
As Idaho's cattle industry grows, waste management has become a point of contention.
