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In this June, 28, 2012 photo, hog farmer Robert Young, 68, checks the well-being of his livestock on his family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young, who has worked the farm as long as he can remember, is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of _ neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. Many farming operations have gone from raising hundreds of head of livestock to thousands and tens of thousands. The enterprises called concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO's have brought concerns for nearby residents about air and water pollution and a drop in property values. Young has built a 29,000-square-foot barn to house 3,600 hogs for Cargill, one of the nation's largest pork processors. He claims that without the expansion, his farm would have collapsed. He regrets the tension with his neighbors but says it could not be avoided. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this June, 28, 2012 photo, hog farmer Robert Young, 68, smiles while tending to his livestock on his family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young, who has worked the farm as long as he can remember, is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of, neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this June, 28, 2012 photo, a portion of the livestock being raised by hog farmer Robert Young mill in the climate controlled hog barn on Young's family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young, who is now 68 years old and has worked the farm as long as he can remember, is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of _ neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this June, 27, 2012 photo, hog farmer Robert Young, 68, bales straw that is fertilized with manure from the 3,600 hogs he raises on his family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young, who is now 68 years old and has worked the farm as long as he can remember, is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of _ neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. Many farming operations have gone from raising hundreds of head of livestock to thousands and tens of thousands. The enterprises called concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO's have brought concerns for nearby residents about air and water pollution and a drop in property values. Young has built a 29,000-square-foot barn to house the hogs for Cargill, one of the nation's largest pork processors. He claims that without the expansion, his farm would have collapsed. He regrets the tension with his neighbors but says it could not be avoided. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this June, 28, 2012 photo, hog farmer Robert Young, 68, walks past his hog barn while tending to his livestock on his family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young, who is now 68 years old and has worked the farm as long as he can remember, is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of _ neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. Many farming operations have gone from raising hundreds of head of livestock to thousands and tens of thousands. The enterprises called concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO's have brought concerns for nearby residents about air and water pollution and a drop in property values. Young has built a 29,000-square-foot barn to house 3,600 hogs for Cargill, one of the nation's largest pork processors. He claims that without the expansion, his farm would have collapsed. He regrets the tension with his neighbors but says it could not be avoided. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this June, 27, 2012 photo, hog farmer Robert Young, 68, checks the automated grain delivery system while tending to his livestock on his family farm in Buckhart, Ill. Young has worked the farm as long as he can remember and is dealing with something his father could never have dreamed of _ neighbors clashing with neighbors over the size of farming operations, and the number of livestock being raised on site. Many farming operations have gone from raising hundreds of head of livestock to thousands and tens of thousands. The enterprises called concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO's have brought concerns for nearby residents about air and water pollution and a drop in property values. Young has built a 29,000-square-foot barn to house 3,600 hogs for Cargill, one of the nation's largest pork processors. He claims that without the expansion, his farm would have collapsed. He regrets the tension with his neighbors but says it could not be avoided. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
BUCKHART, Ill. — Life seems bucolic in rural Illinois, where farmsteads dot country roads, fields of corn and soybeans stretch for miles and families carry on agricultural traditions that span generations. Robert Young was born into this life 68 years ago on the same central …