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Farmer fights manure-spreading faults
April 23, 2010 by Detroit Free Press
April 20, 2010, Clayton,
MI – Since 2000, Lynn Henning has watched a dozen huge dairy and hog farms
mushroom in her rural area west of Adrian.
April 20, 2010, Clayton,
MI – Since 2000, Lynn Henning has watched a dozen huge dairy and hog farms
mushroom in her rural area west of Adrian.
A farmer herself, she was
disturbed by the size of the operations and the massive amounts of untreated
waste they produced. Runoff from untreated manure began to taint nearby creeks
and foul the air with a putrid stench.
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