test post for Parmer county swine

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Texas Facts

  • The average Texas hog factory farm has 100,000 hogs.
  • The average industrial feedlot in Texas has more than 20,500 beef cattle.
  • The nearly 14 million broiler chickens on factory farms in Nacogdoches County, Texas produce as much untreated manure as the sewage from the Detroit metro area.
  • The more than 20 million broiler chickens on factory farms in Shelby County, Texas produce as much untreated manure as the sewage from the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
  • The more than 299,000 beef cattle on industrial feedlots in Parmer County, Texas produce five times as much untreated manure as the sewage from the Philadelphia metro area.
  • The more than 3.8 million egg-laying hens on factory farms in Gonzales County, Texas produce as much untreated manure as the sewage from the San Jose, California metro area.
  • The more than 466,000 beef cattle on industrial feedlots in Deaf Smith County, Texas produce four times as much untreated manure as the sewage from the Los Angeles metro area.
  • In 2008, the EPA ordered an unpermitted Archer County, Texas dairy to install adequate manure capacity and to cease additional unauthorized discharges into a tributary of Lake Arrowhead.
  • The more than 339,000 beef cattle on industrial feedlots in Castro County, Texas produce as much untreated manure as the sewage output from the New York City and Los Angeles metro areas combined.
  • In 2009, the EPA issued an administrative order to a Hopkins County, Texas broiler operation for violating the Clean Water Act for unauthorized discharge of chicken litter from the farm’s litter staging area.
  • In 2008, the EPA issued a civil complaint against a Sulphur Springs, Texas dairy for discharges from frequent overflow of a manure lagoon, a carcass disposal area, silage bunkers and other areas into a waterway that feeds Lake Fork Reservoir.
  • A 2008 study found that mega-dairies in Erath County were producing more than half of Lake Waco’s phosphorus load, which was double the target amount of phosphorus even after a significant four-year government-financed removal of manure from the watershed.
  • The nearly 3 million beef cattle, 1.1 million hogs, 330,000 dairy cows, 90.4 million broiler chickens, and 13.8 million eg

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