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‘It'll go as long as it needs to go'
From a passenger window, the southern Cayuga County landscape looks friendly and familiar - robust crop fields, grassy hills, healthy trees swaying in the summer breeze. But to Connie Mather, something more sinister lurks behind the trees, in the dirt and just beyond the lush hillsides.
“This is CAFO country,” she said on a scenic drive down Genoa's rural roads.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations of 200 or more dairy cows dot the many vistas and valleys here. According to a lawsuit filed by Mather and some East Genoa neighbors five years ago, these large dairy farms also pollute the land, air and water with thousands of tons of manure each day.
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