State Highway Patrol officers resumed regular duties Thursday after two days at the site of a protest over a planned hog farm near Wagner, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Round says.
"The Highway Patrol does not have any troopers at the protest site today,'' Mitch Krebs, press secretary to the governor said Thursday by e-mail. "They have resumed the usual patrol schedule in that area.''
As many as 50 patrol vehicles were parked near the protest site Tuesday and Wednesday, near the proposed location of a hog farrowing unit planned by Long View Farms of Iowa. A group of protesters, sometimes including an estimated 100 or more people, stood across the road from the site. Protesters are concerned for the health of their children and the safety of the environment if a hog farm is built. The farrowing unit could handle as many as 3,350 sows and produce up to 70,000 pigs a year.
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