Court rejects hog farm near historic Arrow Rock

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Cole County judge tells the state Department of Natural Resources to revoke the permit of a hog farm proposed near historic Arrow Rock.

A sweeping ruling issued Monday by Judge Patricia Joyce says that no concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, can be built within 15 miles of the protected landmark.

Dennis Gessling previously won a state construction permit for a 4,800-head hog operation two miles outside the central Missouri town. But with the permit set to expire Saturday, no construction has taken place.

DNR Secretary Doyle Childers says the broadly worded ruling could jeopardize much of the state's agricultural industry. He told The Associated Press the ruling "could have been written by the Sierra Club."