Oregon Rural Action, in partnership with other groups in the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition, is fighting to keep our environment clean, our rural communities healthy and safe and keep small farms in business.

Check out this OPB article detailing SUFF’s most recent proposal to implement a moratorium to temporarily suspend mega-dairy activity.

“The legislation would temporarily prohibit the state departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality from issuing or renewing licenses or permits to new dairies seeking to keep 2,500 cows or more. The moratorium would also apply to existing dairies seeking to expand to that size.

It would require Oregon to study mega-dairies’ effects on air, water, public health, animal welfare and the dairy industry itself and to develop laws addressing those impacts.”

Read the full article here: Requiem for a mega-dairy: Bills seek moratorium on supersize dairy farms in Oregon