Missouri farmers just want their land back

Missouri farmers just want their land back

A Missouri farmer is in limbo

waiting for compensation for his farmland taken as part of an easement for the

proposed Rock Island Trail.

Andy Oligschlager has a crop and cattle farm along what was the old Long Island railroad in Miller County, Missouri. He was first contacted five years ago that Ameren UE was willing to give up the easement where 2-and-a-half miles of his farm lies.

Meanwhile, landowners are

suing the federal government for compensation, “I think I’m like a lot of the

landowners.

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