AG reaches agreement with PSF on barn odor issue (AUDIO)

by Brent Martin on September 1, 2010

in Agriculture,Politics & Government

A huge hog producer in northern Missouri has been given two more years to resolve its odor problem. The Attorney General has reached an agreement with Premium Standard Farms to conclude a case dating back to 1999.

A July 31st deadline passed with Premium Standard Farms failing to install the odor-control equipment required by a 2004 agreement. Attorney General Chris Koster believes PSF will comply this time, because penalties will be assessed if it fails to do so.

“Now, no company is going to eat those kinds of penalties when the other option is simply to apply the modern technology to the barn as required,” Koster tells the Missourinet. [click to continue…]

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