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Dude come on... we don’t do a lot of livestock up here. It’s all corn and beans. It’s definitely fertilizer and pesticides, no doubt about it.
by whalesalad 6y ago
Dude come on... we don’t do a lot of livestock up here. It’s all corn and beans. It’s definitely fertilizer and pesticides, no doubt about it.
- samatman 6y agoMichigan has ~300,000 dairy cows, ~100,000 beef cows, and around a million pigs: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-ogl-sbci-MI-Livestock_204805_7.pdf https://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-ogl-sbci-MI-Lives... This document also discusses manure and runoff problems, although not in much detail, it looks to be a PDF of a slide show. Lake Michigan borders Wisconsin, a state known for animal husbandry.
- sjg007 6y agoThose aren’t the issue