Last week the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation reached an out of court settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency. Under the deal, information released to environmental groups about CAFOs will be scaled back. NPPC’s Dave Warner says the case goes back four years when the EPA released the personal information of 100,000 operations in 29 states to environmental groups. That information included not just the farmers, but their families and employees.

He says the agreement limits what the EPA can release under the Freedom of Information Act.

Warner says the settlement also requires the EPA to train their workers to follow the proper FOIA procedures on information releases.

Warner says the settlement agreement is a major victory for agriculture and for personal privacy.