Selected Print Sources |Selected Journal Articles | Selected Internet Links

Selected Print Sources

Agriculture Waste Emerges as Major State, Federal Environmental Concern. Washington, DC: E and E Publishing, 1999.
Main 3S - TD 930 .A37 1999

Castle, Emery N. Agricultural Industrialization in the American Countryside. Greenbelt, MD: Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, 1998.
Main 3S - HD 1761 .C37 1998

Clark, Andy, et al. Who will pay for on-farm environmental improvements in the 21st century?: A resource guide. Beltsville, MD: USDA National Agricultural Library, 2000.
US DOCS - A 17.24:2000-01

Copeland, Claudia and Jeffrey Zinn. Animal Waste Management and the Environment. Washington, D.C: Congressional Research Service, 1998 http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-48.cfm

El-Ahraf, Amer and William V. Willis. Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Main 3S - TD 932 .E4 1996

Frey, Merritt, Rachel Hopper and Amy Fredregill. Spills and Kills: Manure pollution and America's livestock feedlots. Washington, DC: Clean Water Network, 2000.
Main 3S - TD 428 .A37 F74 2000

Holtkamp, Janice, David O Gorman and Daniel Otto. Community Perceptions of Water Quality Impacts from Large-scale Hog Confinements. (Staff paper) Ames, IA: Iowa State University, Department of Economics, 1994.
Main 3S - SF 395 .H65 1994

Marshall, Mary G. National Extension Targeted Water Quality Program, 1992-1995: Volume 2 Outcomes of animal waste management programs. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, 1998.
US Docs - A 1.2:W 29/10/v.2

Schwab, James. Planning and Zoning for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Washington, DC: American Planning Association, 1998.
Main 3S - TD 930.2.S39 1998

Sierra Club. The Rapsheet on Animal Factories: Convictions, Fines, Pollution Violations and Regulatory Records on America's Animal Factories. San Francisco, CA: Author, 2002.
MAIN 3 S - SF 140 .L58 R36 2002
http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/rapsheets/complete%5Frapsheet%5Freport.pdf

Steele, Kenneth F., ed. Animal Waste and the Land-Water Interface. Boca Raton, LA: Lewis Publishers, 1995.
Main 3S - TD 930.A55 1995

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Management options for concentrated animal feeding operations: hearing before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, May 16, 2001. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2001.
US Docs - Y 4.T 68/2:107-21

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Animal Waste Management Legislation: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second Session, on S. 1323 the Animal Agriculture Reform Act, April 2, 1998. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1999.
US Docs - Y 4.AG 8/3:S.HRG.105-953

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Wastewater Management. Guidance Manual and Sample NPDES Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Final Internal Review Draft. Washington, DC: Author, 2000.
http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/dman_afo-2000.pdf

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Wastewater Management. Producers' Compliance Guide for CAFOs: Revised Clean Water Act Regulations for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Washington, DC: Author, 2003.
http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/cafo_prod_guide_entire_doc.pdf

United States. General Accounting Office. Environmental Protection Agency: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Washington, DC: Author, 2003.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS32334

United States. General Accounting Office. Livestock Agriculture: Increased EPA Oversight will improve Environmental Program for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C.: Author, 2003.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03285.pdf

Welsh, Rick. Reorganizing U.S. Agriculture: the Rise of Industrial Agriculture and Direct Marketing. Greenbelt, MD: Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, 1997.
Main 3S - S 561 .W45 1997

Wright, R. J. et al. Agricultural Uses of Municipal, Animal, and Industrial Byproducts. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1998.
US Docs Fiche 2N - A 1.114:44
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/agbyproducts/agbycontents.htm

Selected Journal Articles

Christen, Kris. "Will New Manure Rule Improve Water Quality?" Water Environment & Technology. 15:3 (March 2003): 11-12, 14.

Dreher, Rod. "USDA-Disapproved: Do USDA Practices Signal the End of Small Farming in America?" National Review. 55:1 (January 27, 2003): 24+.

Glenn, Jim. "300,000,000 Tons of Manure." BioCycle. 39 (January 1998): 47-50.

Innes, Robert. "The Economics of Livestock Waste and its Regulation." American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 82:1 (February 2000): 97-117.

Nikiforuk, Andrew. "When Water Kills: Dangerous Consequences of Factory Farming in Canada." Maclean's. 113:24 (June 12, 2000): 18-21.

Novek, Joel. "Intensive Hog Farming in Manitoba: Transnational Treadmills and Local Conflicts." The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 40:1 (February 2003): 3-26.

O'Brien, Tim. "Factory Farming and Human Health." The Ecologist. 31:5 (June 2001 supplement): 30-4, 58-9.

Schmidt, Charles W. "Not Very Neighborly: the Injustice of Hog Farm Siting." Environmental Health Perspectives. 108:3 (March 2000): A134-A135.

Spira, Henry. "Less Meat, Less Misery: Reforming Factory Farms." Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. 11 (Spring 1996): 39-44.

Wing, Steve. "The Potential Impact of Flooding on Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Eastern North Carolina." Environmental Health Perspectives. 10:4 (April 2002): 387-91.

Wing, Steve and Susanne Wolf. "Intensive Livestock Operations, Health, and Quality of Life among Eastern North Carolina Residents." Environmental Health Perspectives. 108:3 (March 2000): 223-33.

Selected Internet Links

Environmental Defense Fund. Hog Watch. http://www.hogwatch.org/

Families Against Rural Messes. http://www.farmweb.org/

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE). The GRACE Factory Farm Project. http://www.factoryfarm.org

Manitoba. Department of Agriculture and Food. Livestock Stewardship 2000. http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/news/lsteward/stewardship0.html

Manitoba. Department of Agriculture and Food. Public Concerns with Livestock Production. See also other livestock sections on management issues for particular types of livestock. http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/livestock/publicconcerns/cwa01s00.html

Michigan Land Use Institute. Special Reports. "Mega Manure Fails Farmers, Public, Environment." http://www.mlui.org/report.asp?spid=26

Minnesota. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. "Hot Topic: Feedlots in Minnesota." http://www.pca.state.mn.us/hot/feedlots.html

Sierra Club. "CAFOs: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations." http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/

United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Environmental Health. "Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)."http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/CAFO.htm

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. "Animal Feeding Operations." Site includes topical government documents. Some are full text. http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=7

Michigan legislative and state government employees may obtain copies of any of these materials by calling the Library of Michigan reference desk at (517) 373-1300. Our FAX number is (517) 373-5853. We will also locate additional materials if needed.

Updated 02/24/2005