

Smithfield Foods says it will pay farmers to cover their manure ponds with plastic on more than 1,000 U.S. farms. Those “lagoons” have become increasingly controversial.
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Smithfield Foods says it will pay farmers to cover their manure ponds with plastic on more than 1,000 U.S. farms. Those “lagoons” have become increasingly controversial.
(Image credit: Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)