KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) -- Premium Standard Farms has agreed to finish installing odor-reducing technology on all 11 of its Class 1-A hog farms in northern Missouri by July 2012.
A legal settlement announced Wednesday by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster also calls for PSF to give a total of $1 million to schools in five counties and to road funds in six counties.
Premium Standard had been ordered in a 1999 consent decree to install technology in its barns to reduce odors pumped into the air.
A second consent decree in 2004 gave Premium Standard until July 31 of this year to install
so-called "next-generation technology" at its hog confinements.
The company said it wasn't able to invent such technology until April of this year and asked for a two-year extension.
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