Senate passes bill limiting local CAFO rules

A controversial attempt to stop counties from regulating large animal operations was approved last week in the Missouri Senate.

The bill, proposed by Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, would establish a statewide policy for regulating confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, and roll back the regulations that have already been passed in 20 counties, including Cooper, Howard and Pettis counties.

The 23-11 vote to send the bill to the Missouri House fell largely along party lines, with Sen. Mike Cierpiot, R-Jackson County, the only Republican to join the Senate’s ten Democrats in opposition. Sen. Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, voted in favor of the bill.

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