SB 85B closes confined animal feeding operations

Once targeting the so-called chicken “mega farms” which fall under Oregon’s CAFO program, SB 85 went from a complete moratorium that would have devastated Oregon’s vast CAFO industry, to an ultimately amended down bill mainly targeting Oregon’s “stock water exemption” in drought-stricken areas of the state. Though it will create an uncertain “patchwork” across the state in citing these farm…

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