Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 6/5/18

Legislators in the country’s No. 2 hog-growing state on Tuesday stepped up efforts to shield industrial hog operations from neighbours who have complained for decades about the smell, noise and flies generated by housing thousands of animals together. The state Senate’s Agriculture Committee unveiled and approved language that would protect the low-cost but much-criticized method of handling hog waste.

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