CAFO foes applaud BSU study

By SETH SLABAUGH, Star Press
seths@muncie.gannett.com

HARTFORD CITY -- Opponents of concentrated animal feeding operations are citing a Ball State University study as proof that CAFOs provide very little economic impact in East Central Indiana.

"Hog farms in this area are absolutely horrible as an economic generator, and that's what they've written up," said economist Bill Weida, referring to the findings of a BSU study of the pork production industry in Jay and Randolph counties. "It is creating so little economic activity that it's almost irrelevant."