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Tom Dittmer says he takes offense at the "factory farm"label that some have attached to Grandview Farms, his confined animal feeding operation in rural Eldridge.

As Iowa state lawmakers seek to shut down scrutiny of the state’s abundant factory farms, one of their US senators is trying to make sure no other state can enact farmed animal welfare reforms either.

More than 486,000 farmed animals suffered horrific deaths in barn fires in 2023, pushing the death toll over the past decade to more than 6.8 million. As in previous years, birds accounted for the ...