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Missouri Pork exec pleased with CAFO bill’s advance
The head of the Missouri Pork Association says he’s pleased that a bill addressing
regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has advanced to a
final Missouri Senate vote. Don Nikodim tells Brownfield preliminary senate
passage meant that science won the day.
“People finally came to realize there are rules and regulations in place,” Nikodim
told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday. “That’s what we need to have on a statewide
basis.”
Senate Bill 391, that prevents counties from regulating CAFOs more strictly than
the state, has one more senate vote this week before passing to the Missouri
House.
“Right now we’ve got kind of a hodge-podge with about 20 counties that have gone
out and developed some sort of an off-the-wall regulatory process,” he said. “In
essence, it’s stopped production increases in those counties with rare exceptions.”
Opponents of the measure say that passage of the bill would take local control
from county governments. Several Missouri farm and commodity groups have lobbied
for its passage.
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