Judge to rule soon on lawsuit over open northeast Iowa feedlot for cattle

Statewide Iowa — A district court judge says he’ll rule soon on a lawsuit challenging a state permit for a feedlot with 11-thousand-six-hundred cattle near a prized trout stream in northeast Iowa.

The Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club sued last September after Supreme Beef won permission to put the open feedlot near the headwaters of a stream that’s in the environmentally sensitive driftless region. During a virtual hearing Thursday, Assistant Iowa Attorney General David Steward represented the DNR and asked the judge to dismiss the suit.

Attorney Wally Taylor, who represents the Iowa Sierra Club, says the lawsuit seeks to prevent a major pollution event.

The lawsuit claims the DNR approved Supreme Beef’s application despite receiving calculations that the feedlot’s manure management plan was flawed.

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