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While Cedar County awaits ruling in CAFO lawsuit, a large chicken operation moves in
Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
When the attorney general’s office asked a judge in 2019 to lift a temporary restraining order blocking a Missouri law pre-empting county regulations on concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that were stricter than the state’s, the argument was straightforward.
No one was trying to build a large animal feeding operation in Cedar County.
Now nearly two years later, Cedar County commissioners face possible litigation as they try to enforce local CAFO regulations which they argue are necessary to protect the health and livelihood of area residents on a 20,000 chicken feeding operation