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Despite State-Ordered Closure, Farm Advocates Hopeful for Hog Farm's Future

J. Froelich
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Jason Henson, co-owner of C&H Hog Farms, poses in 2013 in front of one of two swine waste sewage lagoons.

In mid November, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality ordered C&H Hog Farms to cease operations, citing potential pollution of the Buffalo River watershed. The farm has been opposed by the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance since it opened six miles upstream of the Buffalo River along Big Creek. Despite the order by ADEQ, the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation is supporting the farm's operators in their legal push to exert their "rights to farm."

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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