In continuing reverberations from a proposed but denied attempt at animal feedlot regulation, the Box Elder County Commission on Wednesday heard from a local sheep rancher, as well as the Utah Farm Bureau. The controversy stems from the county’s attempt to comply with a deadline set by the legislature in S.B. 130 last year, which was passed with the goal of limiting local regulation of agriculture in Utah. That bill stated that if counties were going to deny areas where animal feeding operations could take place, they had to provide alternative areas for feedlot operations. It also provided that counties...

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