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STURGIS, S.D. – Scattered across South Dakota and other states are medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). These are operations with fewer than 1,000 beef cattle, 700 diary cows, 2,500 pigs, 125,000 chickens or 55,000 turkeys. These CAFOs have been exempt from federal environmental assessments since 2016. Until now. In 2018, a coalition of animal-welfare […]