Bill passed in Kansas House to allow large-scale poultry operations
TOPEKA — The Kansas House gave final passage Monday to a bill that would allow large, factory-scale poultry feeding operations to do business in Kansas, reports Peter Hancock for the Lawrence Journal-World
13 March 2018
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By: The bill, Senate Bill 405, would allow dry manure processing systems to grow up to 300,000 birds in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) which would supply the processing plant. Companies such as Tyson Foods would operate such a facility, which it unsuccessfully proposed to do last year elsewhere.
The report states that public opinion is against such CAFOs, and amendments to allow the public to protest and vote against these plants were rejected, leading some House members to vote against it.
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Ryan Johnson
Ryan worked in conservation from 2008 to 2017, during which time he operated a rainbow trout hatchery and helped to maintain public and protected green spaces in Canada for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. As editor of The Poultry Site, he now writes about challenges and opportunities in agriculture across the globe.
