Two years ago, no one would have considered the Shockley farm a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, the government designation for a farm with so many animals that it is defined as a point source of pollution and regulated like one. But today, thanks to a set of 2008 regulations that redefined both pollution sources and animal operations, Shockley is among hundreds of Maryland farmers now regulated as CAFOs because they drain into state waterways.

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