Call for CAFO moratorium in Nebraska draws sharp response from Farm Bureau

Call for CAFO moratorium in Nebraska draws sharp response from Farm Bureau

Ansley Mick, director of state governmental relations for Nebraska Farm Bureau

An official of Nebraska Farm Bureau says they’re not surprised by the effort to place a moratorium on new concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the state.

Ansley Mick says

they’ve been preparing for what she calls “anti-animal agriculture activists”

for some time.

“We started

seeing it on the coast a year ago with some pork producers—and we took some action

in the legislature this year, actually, to help protect growers in rural areas

who would be targeted by nuisance suits,” Mick says.

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