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 ...

Not everyone is pleased, but the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission last week gave its final approval to the master matrix, a set of criteria that will impact how factory farm permits are ...

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 ...