No holiday from hog-lot odors
REGISTER EDITORIAL BOARD

Virtually any day of the year in Iowa, the issue of hog-lot odors can waft 
into one's consciousness.

St. Michael's cemetery in Whittemore, along Highway 18 in northwest Iowa, 
lies across the road from a hog confinement. The windblown stench on 
Memorial Day weekend was nearly enough to drive off relatives of the 
deceased who were putting flowers on graves.

That area is dotted with hog confinements, so the rank odor is nothing new. 
But it seemed more offensive having to breathe it in while honoring the 
dead.

Late Saturday afternoon, the smell made one want to get back in the car.

Odor from hog confinements probably will never be entirely eliminated. But 
such encounters raise the question, once again, of whether all hog producers 
are doing all they reasonably can to control it.
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Study sought on ethanol pipelines
Supplement to rail transport appears vital as industry expands, Boswell says

By WILLIAM RYBERG
REGISTER BUSINESS WRITER

Two members of Iowa's congressional delegation want to know whether 
pipelines would be a good way to get ethanol transported across the country 
in the future.

Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Ia., held a news conference Tuesday to announce that 
he'd introduced a bill in the U.S. House asking for a $2 million study of 
the feasibility of transporting ethanol by new or existing pipeline. Sen. 
Tom Harkin, D-Ia., introduced a similar bill in the Senate.

http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070530/BUSINESS/705300364/1029/archive

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