Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water

In the nation’s leading pork-producing state, animal waste fuels crop growth but impairs water quality in a leaky circular system.

By Anika Jane Beamer
July 22, 2025
Landon Plagge 
Anika Jane Beamer

Anika Jane Beamer is an Outrider fellow at Inside Climate News and a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 
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