(Des Moines)– State regulators have denied a request by a pair of northwest Iowa brothers to build two confinement buildings that can hold four-thousand hogs each.
The Environmental Protection Commission voted this week to deny the application from Tom and Kelly Doeden who farm near Sibley.
The brothers want to build the confinement buildings northeast of Sibley, just south of the Iowa-Minnesota border.
The E-P-C concluded their application didn’t meet minimum state laws because it failed to include a phosphorous index in the manure management plan. That index is a way to determine how much manure can be safely spread onto nearby farm fields.
The Doedens can resubmit their application or appeal the commission’s decision to district court.
(From the Associated Press).
