By Bill Satterfield
Special to Poultry Times
GEORGETOWN, Del. — The latest attack on Delmarva's chicken industry and its farm families comes from a coalition of groups in the environmental industry that seeks to put a moratorium on chicken house construction, purportedly to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. In fact, these groups want a halt in chicken house construction in Maryland until 2024, the year in which a 2015 state regulation to limit phosphorus applications to certain farm fields fully is implemented.
This is a ridiculous approach, but not entirely unexpected from groups that. . .
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