Chicken litter losses
AG loses on two fronts
There were two pieces of bad news this week for Attorney General Drew Edmondson. The first came Monday when a federal judge in Tulsa rejected Edmondson’s bid for an injunction to stop the spread of poultry litter inside the Illinois River watershed. Judge Gregory K. Frizzell said the state hadn’t made its case that the litter, which is used as fertilizer, needed to be banned because it threatened human health. Later in the week, the Tulsa World reported that the amount of litter used in the watershed actually increased this year. One reason? The AG’s move to ban it. Farmers “just panicked” and “ended up probably using more litter in the watershed than they would have initially planned to over the last season,” Sherri Herron with the nonprofit BMPs Inc. told the World. “They were afraid that they might not get to use it again.” The law of unintended consequences at it again.
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