Referendum-Enabling Legislation Banning Corporate Farming

Kansas law allows counties to vote on whether to oppose corporate farming and many have done so. Over 20 counties in Kansas have voted to keep corporate hog farms out of their county and more county votes are occurring all the time.

RULES

• Kansas
  Over 20 counties have voted to keep corporate hog farms out of their county and more county votes are occurring all the time. However, Murphy Farms, despite its multistate ownership of nearly 300,000 sows claims to not be a corporate farm. A lawsuit is being prepared to challenge Murphy's claim. More...

Other Resources:

• Anti-Corporate Farming Laws Benefit Rural Communities - Friends of the Constitution, February 2002
  The results of this analysis indicate that, in general, agriculture dependent counties in states with anti-corporate farming laws fared better (less families in poverty, lower unemployment and higher percentages of farms realizing cash gains) than agriculture dependent counties in states without such laws.
• Anti-Corporate Farming Laws in the Heartland - the Law, History, and Facts on the Anti-Corporate Farming Laws in Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa, by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, 1997
• Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
• Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
• Familyfarmer.org
• Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC)