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Some Missouri livestock bills signed into law

cattle grazing_webSome cattle friendly bills have been signed into law by Governor Nixon but other priorities of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association have not.

The association’s Mike Deering says a tax credit bill for agriculture, including renewable energy and crops, was signed today at the Missouri State Fairgrounds, “Ours, of course, a Qualified Beef tax credit, is something that has been very under-utilized. Producers have not been taking advantage of that. So, some changes have been made that, hopefully, will allow people to take advantage of it and more opportunities to use those dollars and grow those operations here in the state of Missouri, beef cattle farms.”

The other one signed by the governor reduces red tape for family farm and ranch corporations who must register with the Missouri Secretary of State’s office….It keeps them from having to re-register every year, “If the name of that farm doesn’t change, if the ownership doesn’t change – if nothing changes – it just eliminates the bureaucracy and red tape that family farmers have to go through and allows them to be out in the field or out in the pasture instead of behind a computer having to re-file paperwork every single year.”

Missouri Cattlemen’s is disappointed that Nixon did not sign the livestock liability bill that protects producers if their livestock escape their confines, the bill that would stop the government from considering disaster assistance as taxable, and the one that protects producer privacy.

 

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