{"id":2369,"date":"2016-07-07T05:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2016-07-07T05:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:59:20","slug":"fulton-county-residents-fight-back-against-proposed-factory-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Fulton County Residents Fight Back Against Proposed 8,700 Hog Factory Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of Fulton County, Pennsylvania are fighting a proposed factory farm with 8,700 hogs under five acres of buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/berkeleyspringscommunitymatters.com\/2016\/07\/06\/this-week-in-morgan-county-marjorie-hudson\/?embed\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;\" webkitallowfullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The factory farm, also known as a concentrated animal feed operation (CAFO), is being targeted for a mountain meadow that drains into two tributaries of Big Cove Creek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fulton County resident Marjorie Hudson is leading the opposition to the facility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her home neighbors the proposed facility. She has garnered more than 500 signatures in opposition to the factory farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company that is proposing the facility is Country View Family Farms which is owned by Hatfield.Food Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hudson first heard of the factory farm proposal in February 2014 when she read that the company was applying for a permit for a nutrient management plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe nutrient management plan didn\u2019t manage any nutrients,\u201d Hudson told Russell Mokhiber during an interview on This Week in Morgan County. \u201cBut we were told that if the application was administratively correct, it would be approved. And it was approved on March 13, 2014.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI thought that the permits would protect the public,\u201d Hudson said. \u201cBut we don\u2019t know where the waste is being shipped to. No reports are required to be filed with the state. And if there are no reports, the public has no way to find out what happens to the waste.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hudson is appealing the approval of that plan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hudson is a conservative Republican. And she says that many conservatives in her county are also opposed to the factory farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe regulations that should handle this problem are being bent to the will of the company,\u201d Hudson said. \u201cThis project is not appropriate for the site they have chosen. It\u2019s ecologically sensitive area on a mountain meadow filled with water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the company\u2019s name is Country View Family Farms, Hudson said that it is not a family farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a factory,\u201d she said. \u201cThey want to put 8,700 hogs under five acres of building on the mountain meadow. Those buildings are going to be over manure pits. They will be contained and then hauled out. Those pits are going to contain 11.4 million gallons of manure and waste annually that will be land applied locally within a four mile radius of the property. They are going to be taking a lot of water out of the water table just for those hogs alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Fulton County, Pennsylvania are fighting a proposed factory farm with 8,700 hogs under five acres of buildings. 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