Iowa has a poop problem. This story also appeared in Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts The Hawkeye State’s pigs, cows and chickens produce about as much waste as 134 million people—nearly the population of Russia. Most of that manure is spread onto fields as fertilizer, where significant amounts of it wash into Iowa […]
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