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Connecting the Dots – Industrial Hog Production and Blue-Green Algae in Our Lake
Over 30 years ago, large factory style barns, used for raising pigs, started dotting the landscape across southern Manitoba. Not surprisingly, within just a few years, smelly and sometimes toxic blue-green algae blooms began to dominate Lake Winnipeg, and other southern