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Missouri lawmaker’s bill limits CAFO challenges at county level

The Missouri Senate Ag Committee chairman is sponsoring a bill to limit county commissions and health center boards from putting harsher restrictions on CAFOs than state law, rules or regulations allow.

Senator Mike Bernskoetter told Missouri Farm Bureau members in Jefferson City it’s probably the most controversial bill in his committee, “It will let people have their confined feeding operations. You know, some of these counties have a health board and they’re stopping these feeding operations.”

Bernskeoetter says he thinks it’s the right thing to do to protect agriculture, “Helping young people stay in agriculture. A lot of times that’s one way that the young people can stay on the farm if they can start a confined feeding operation.”

But, he expects a lot of criticism, “One of the things that I’ll be in the news for, you’ll see me called everything – people will call me all kinds of names because of that bill.”

Bernskoetter says agriculture is changing and people can’t make a living on 90 acres anymore, like his grandfather did.

Senator Mike Bernskoetter, chair of the Missouri Senate Ag Committee, gives update on ag bills being considered this session

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