Farms that use agricultural byproducts for animal feed, bedding materials, and dust control may lose those through a bill now in the California Senate, reports theWestern Farm Press.
Assembly Bill 2959 will force the unfranchised hauling of organic byproducts from grocery stores, restaurants, breweries, and wineries to be subjected to the same franchise agreements municipalities now have with select companies.
Louie Brown, a lobbyist representing the California Grocers Association, says the bill will further compound the challenges of meeting state mandates to divert organic waste away from landfills.
弗兰克康礼贤拥有乳制品在埃斯孔迪多附近,CA和美国es the feed byproducts from local companies to feed his cows. If approved, the proposed law would ban him from hauling those byproducts to his farm.
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