Master Matrix rules for confined animal feedlot operations in Iowa are working properly and don’t need strengthening. That’s according to Mike Cline, President of the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association. He says it’s critical those regulations are left intact and that there’s one statewide regulation in place for producers to follow.

Activist groups have petitioned for putting more stricter Master Matrix rules in place. Cline says the state’s water is being protected by the current rules and changing them now doesn’t make sense.

He says producers and their animals use the water and don’t want to see any contamination or environmental damage to it.

He says producers and consumers need to work together to enhance the state’s water quality and putting some type of moratorium in place on CAFO operations would just be disruptive and hurtful.