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Hi George,
SB 391 is explained in this Moniteau County Health Board story from last month.
https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/a-county-health-board-pauses-proposed-cafo-ordinance/
Julie Harker
Brownfield News Director
News
Moniteau County, Missouri takes CAFO-related health ordinance back to drawing board
The Moniteau County Health Board Monday withdrew its motion for a health ordinance that would effectively regulate concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. The issue will be reconsidered after discussion by a study group that includes farmers, according to James Canter, chairman of that board.
“Everybody’s in favor of clean air and clean water, right,” Canter told Brownfield Ag News following the meeting in California, Missouri. “That’s what they’re going to working on until the next special board meeting that’s on August 5th.”
Moniteau County farmer Dennis Feezor spoke in opposition of the the ordinance saying the Missouri Department of Natural Resources should have jurisdiction over CAFO location and operation.
“It shouldn’t be done at the county level with people that have no experience with the industry,” said Feezor, during an interview with Brownfield.
Calloway County farmer Jeff Jones addressed the board about the importance of clean air and water, saying that farmers and others should live together in harmony.
“The CAFOs and the people need to live and respect each other,” said Jones, who lives less than a half-mile from a hog operation that has several thousand sows. “We cannot farm in ways that is going to hurt each other; we have to farm in ways that help each other.”
The meeting at which the Moniteau County Health Board will consider the next ordinance will be August 5th.
SB 391 was designed to take care of this situation. Are they not applying it?