Voters in Howard County, Missouri decide Tuesday whether to retain a health ordinance putting animal head count and manure handling restrictions on concentrated animal feeding operations in the county. Presiding Commissioner Sam Stroupe tells Brownfield the ordinance on the ballot imposes restrictions beyond those from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
“That would perhaps dissuade some very large hog operations from coming into the county,” Stroupe told Brownfield Ag News Monday.
If passed, the ordinance would prevent families from expanding livestock operations to support succeeding generations, according to Steve Diehls, a cattle producer in Howard County.
