Megafarms and pollution: Future of dairy is tested in Brown County

“Brown County, home to Wisconsin’s third-largest city, may seem an unlikely testing ground for the future of dairy farming. The lower Fox River runs through the middle of the county — a watershed with some of the most intensive manufacturing in the state.” …“I do think that it is a major concern for the system,” said Kevin Fermanich of UW-Green Bay, who studies the effects of land practices on the bay.

“Do we have enough land that is appropriate for … applying the manure being created by all of these dairy cows?”

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