ALBANY, Ore. — A proposed large chicken farm near Scio, Ore., which could produce a total of total 3.5 million birds a year, has been put on hold while state agencies reconsider its confined animal feeding operations permit.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Environmental Quality are being sued over issuing the permits for J-S Ranch.
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