Missouri Pork exec pleased with CAFO bill’s advance

Missouri Pork exec pleased with CAFO bill’s advance

The head of the Missouri Pork Association says he’s pleased that a bill addressing

regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has advanced to a

final Missouri Senate vote. Don Nikodim tells Brownfield preliminary senate

passage meant that science won the day.

“People finally came to realize there are rules and regulations in place,” Nikodim

told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday. “That’s what we need to have on a statewide

basis.”

Senate Bill 391, that prevents counties from regulating CAFOs more strictly than

the state, has one more senate vote this week before passing to the Missouri

House.

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