DNR Issues Permit For Controversial Industrial Farm

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a pollutant discharge permit for a large farm in the Driftless Area. Roth Feeder Pig in Crawford County will produce up to 140-thousand weaned piglets a year. The same farm near Wauzeka will house more than five-thousand female pigs and about 50 boars. People living nearby worry that the manure spread across 13-hundred acres will get into the groundwater and contaminate their private wells.