… Kansas has about 435 CAFOs and more than 2,400 smaller livestock operations. Craig Volland, of the Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club, said the number had grown steadily. One CAFO in Greeley County in far Western Kansas has 180 hog barns and was looking in 2014 to expand to become the second largest in the country. Volland said right-to-farm rules in Kansas have made the state more friendly to CAFOs. But until recent years, regulators stuck close to federal CAFO rules in issuing permits.
Source: Kansas Reflector
