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Missouri Cattlemen’s 2020 legislative priorities

The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association looks to set legislative priorities for 2020 during their Missouri Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show.

The executive vice president of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, Mike Deering, tells Brownfield one of those possible priorities is the use of eminent domain by private companies.

“Eminent domain was never intended to be used as a first resort by private, for-profit companies who want to take someone’s land, confiscate their land, for private gain,” Deering said. “It’s unacceptable and it’s a pervasive invasion of private property rights.”

Deering said eminent domain is being exploited by private companies to take and use land for personal gain.

“We’re not against eminent domain,” he said. But we are against private, for profit, companies confiscating land and taking a farmer or rancher’s land.”

He said eminent domain and tort reform will be discussed as possible legislative priorities during the policy and resolution session at the Missouri Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show in Columbia, Missouri.

Missouri Cattlemen’s Association executive vice president Mike Deering on eminent domain

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