Rural Affairs

In 2019, Missouri had more than 500 CAFOs, according to the Missouri Coalition for the Environment.

Some of Missouri’s Largest CAFOs are Seeking Less Stringent State Regulation

By Allison Kite | June 23, 2021

Eleven of Missouri’s largest concentrated animal feeding operations are working to reduce the state’s oversight of their hog facilities, despite a record of manure spills and clean water violations.

Bert Wire's farm sits behind the "Farms Not Factories" sign near Chillicothe, Missouri,

Missouri Eases Rules for Building CAFOs Despite Outcry About Potential Pollution

By Allison Kite | May 19, 2021

Missouri regulators on Tuesday eased the rules governing design of massive industrial hog facilities in a move critics claim was meant to help one controversial facility.

A grain elevator in Turney, Missouri, looms large over the small community. An elevator in neighboring Stewartsville will be the location of the intelligent router sending broadband signals to the village.

It Takes A Village to Reach Rural Broadband Fringe

By Jacob Douglas | May 6, 2021

U.S. Ignite broadband experiment finds a host in a tiny Missouri village.

Jenni Koch shows other residents the parcels of land up for rezoning at The Coffee Bean Co. in Spring Hill, Kansas, on Feb. 9, 2021.

Rural Johnson Countians Pay the Price of Progress at the Edge(rton)

By Jacob Douglas | April 21, 2021

Edgerton, Kansas, is on track to approve Northpoint Development’s proposal to expand Logistics Park Kansas City, despite resistance from nearby rural residents.