State Legislature

Missouri Ag Bill advances

The Missouri Senate Agriculture committee has advanced a broad reaching agriculture bill this week.

Committee chair Brian Munzlinger says it contains the important dairy provision to help grow the state’s dairy industry but does not contain the deer provision – the reason for Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of the bill last year, “I hope that we can fast-track this bill and that it gets through. Even if it gets through the Senate as the first bill through, hopefully it gets through the House also.”

Munzlinger removed the part of the bill that would have reduced the amount of foreign owned ag land allowed in Missouri from 1% to 1-half-of-a-percent. He says that will be a stand-alone bill.