Video & Transcript : 'livestock' :
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- On line 34 for the Agri Livestock Investment Grant, no direct costs to the general fund, but it just
- expands what the livestock investment grant can be used for.
- On line 48 for the new local food purchasing... line 34 for the agree livestock line 34 for the agree
- livestock investment<00:13:54.880><c> grant.
- On line 39 for the Minnesota Livestock<00:14:39.279><c> Breeders,</c><00:14:40.480><c> uh,</c><00:14:
Committee:
Senate Finance
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform Mar 5th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform
Transcript Highlights:
- So if you're curious, the first personal property tax to be collected in the country was on livestock
- The first personal property tax collected in Missouri was also on livestock in 1939.
- And then there were still a few counties that were collecting an additional tax on livestock.
- They absolutely know what is business equipment, what is livestock, what is motor vehicles.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 2134 is about livestock safety and humane treatment.
- This is about livestock safety and humane treatment after a truck wreck.
- We have seen incidents where livestock have been mismanaged by the towing services or a third-party service
- these other types of jobs that are not from the ag industry, and they don't understand how to handle livestock
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Wildlife
Summary:
The committee first laid over Senate Bill 1573, then took up Senate Bill 2173, which would create a landowner/energy negotiation and agriculture preservation education program through OSU and Langston Extension, and authorize but not require the Corporation Commission to establish an energy land-remediation fee of up to $25 per acre on disturbed land, with a 50% credit for dual-use projects. Members discussed whether the fee would fall on landowners or projects, the role of county extension offices, and the bill’s lack of a fiscal impact after revisions. The bill was amended, title struck, and passed 12-0.
Senate Bill 2028, as amended and worked from committee substitute, would allow advertising of raw milk and raw milk products, require labeling, and raise the incidental sales limit to 1,500 gallons per month while still barring commercial store sales. Senators debated whether warning labels should include health risks, especially for pregnant women, and whether the gallon limit was arbitrary. Supporters argued for consumer choice and parity with other risky foods, while opponents raised public health concerns. The bill passed 11-2.
The committee then passed Senate Bill 2127, which creates an Oklahoma Department of Food and Forestry advisory council on product classification, by a 11-2 vote. Senate Bill 2117, dealing with contamination of grain and assigning responsibility to the Department of Agriculture after a sewage-related wheat contamination incident, passed 13-0 after members noted the need for clearer definitions of contamination. Finally, Senate Bill 2134, addressing livestock safety and humane treatment after truck wrecks by directing ODAF to develop rules and training for emergency responders, also passed 13-0. The meeting then adjourned.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight committee (9-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- from our veterinarians to make improvements at their clinic where, again, farmers can bring their livestock
- </c><00:14:18.160><c> and</c><00:14:18.399><c> have</c><00:14:18.480><c> the</c> bring in their livestock
- and have the bring in their livestock and have the veterinarian<00:14:19.120><c> work</c><00:14:19.279
- </c><00:14:31.760><c> in</c><00:14:31.920><c> there</c><00:14:32.079><c> and</c> bring their livestock
- in there and bring their livestock in there and utilize<00:14:33.519><c> those</c><00:14:33.839><c>
Summary:
The committee met on September 18, 2025, approved the July 10 minutes, and received Brandon Reid’s monthly report on Kentucky agriculture development and finance activity for July and August. Reid emphasized the long-running structure created under House Bill 611 and Senate Bill 28, the role of county agriculture development councils in all 120 counties, and the importance of the program as a national model for supporting Kentucky agriculture. He also introduced new staff and interns, including a new loan programs manager, Rachel Coward, and project manager Kylie Davis.
For July, the development board reported $3.4 million invested in agriculture and the finance corporation reported $3.1 million in loans. Highlights included 11 county council meetings, site visits, program reviews, and 18 project reports. July approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased farm animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, infrastructure loans, an agriculture processing loan, and beginning farmer loans. Staff also noted that all 120 counties had submitted their required five-year comprehensive plans on schedule.
Bill McCloskey then highlighted several funded projects, including Dino’s Farm LLC in Jefferson County, which received support to purchase a meat processing facility and equipment, with the goal of creating market opportunities for goat, sheep, and cattle producers and establishing Kentucky’s first halal meat processing facility. Other projects included a veterinarian facility project to address large animal vet shortages and Grow Appalachia at Berea College, which provides technical assistance and market support for small-scale and eastern Kentucky producers. Members discussed the need for programs such as high tunnels and other small-scale opportunities in rural areas, and staff noted related resources such as CAPE and NRCS funding.
For August, the board reported $500,000 in development board investments and just over $3 million in finance corporation loans, along with fewer staff activities than July but continued county council, site visit, and project review work. August approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, agriculture infrastructure loans, beginning farmer loans, and a horticulture incentives loan. Additional project updates included another veterinary equipment purchase, emergency safety equipment in Graves County, and a food safety and efficiency incentive for Jared Cornet.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/03/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Livestock require constant attention regardless of circumstances.
- Livestock require constant attention regardless of circumstances.
- Livestock require constant attention regardless of circumstances.
- Livestock require constant attention regardless of circumstances.
- </c><01:47:11.920><c> didn't</c> smaller Farmers with livestock didn't smaller Farmers with livestock
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> state Wyoming state land or livestock state Wyoming state land or livestock board<01:00:31.920><
- </c><01:01:09.359><c> Um</c><01:01:10.000><c> I</c> threaten our domestic livestock.
- Um I threaten our domestic livestock.
- Um, our livestock industry is should do.
- ,</c> sure that we've got a healthy livestock, sure that we've got a healthy livestock, especially<01
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So starting off is the first measure, SP 2350, transfers oversight of the aquaculture and livestock support
- SP 2350 transfers oversight of the aquaculture and livestock support services branch of the Department
- </c><00:02:15.040><c> support</c> aquaculture and livestock support aquaculture and livestock support
- Um that is feed cost as is usual<00:12:58.079><c> with</c><00:12:58.240><c> livestock</c><00:12:58.800
- My bigger question is what is the impact to the livestock area within your division and its functions
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Environment
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on SP 2350, which would transfer oversight of the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Development Division and the aquaculture and livestock support services branch to the Agribusiness Development Corporation. The Department of Agriculture and ADC both testified, with ADC opposing the bill as written while supporting the goal of strengthening agriculture. ADC said the transfer could create federal operational and coordination risks, jeopardize federal funding and program continuity, and was unnecessary because ADC is a business development entity, not a regulatory agency. The Hawaii Farmers Union also expressed concern that moving the programs could weaken the department’s ability to access federal resources, while the Hawaii Farm Bureau submitted written testimony and the Hawaii Aquaculture and Aquaponics Association and H-Plan were noted as supporting the measure; the Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council was noted as opposing it.
Much of the discussion focused on aquaculture’s economic potential and the role of regulation, permitting, and funding. Committee members questioned why aquaculture had not grown faster, citing current gross revenues of about $66 million last year, a prior high of $82 million, and a possible long-term target of $500 million. Testimony identified permitting and feed costs as major barriers, along with market conditions and water quality issues affecting producers. ADC described ongoing efforts on feed development, permitting streamlining, coastal-state collaboration on seaweed and restorative aquaculture, and national advocacy for more parity in seafood import standards.
Members also pressed the Department of Agriculture on its leadership and priorities, criticizing the lack of bills and resources dedicated to aquaculture and asking whether the department should have more authority to pursue land purchases and development opportunities. The department said it relies on divisions and industry feedback for bill ideas, noted it funds an annual aquaculture survey, and said it was pursuing congressional earmarks and other funding for aquaculture parks, research, and export/import issues. ADC said it would work with the department if the bill passed, but that its current statute does not give it regulatory authority and any such change would require a statutory amendment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/13/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- and dear to those areas, and it seems like lands that are more marginal can support that type of livestock
- and dear to those areas, and it seems like lands that are more marginal can support that type of livestock
- and dear to those areas, and it seems like lands that are more marginal can support that type of livestock
- Where pasture land for livestock would be a good addition or a good coexistent opportunity for solar
- Lands that are more marginal can support that type of livestock, and so maybe we need to get a little
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (11/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, if you look at the livestock statutes, the definition of livestock, it's dairy and beef cattle.
- Um, if you look at<00:27:02.559><c> the</c><00:27:02.799><c> livestock</c><00:27:03.520><c> statutes,
- </c><00:27:04.000><c> the</c> at the livestock statutes, the at the livestock statutes, the definition
- </c><00:27:06.080><c> dairy</c> definition of livestock, it's it's dairy definition of livestock, it's
- </c><01:02:03.440><c> in</c> and raise their cattle and livestock in and raise their cattle and livestock
Summary:
The Environment and Agriculture Committee held a work session and then executive session on HB 396, which would allow processing of beef cows, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by USDA. Representative Comtois presented a revised amendment after prior drafting issues were corrected. The changes narrowed the bill to cuts of meat rather than meat food products, clarified labeling for amenable and non-amenable species, removed an exemption from federal law, struck a seasonal date range at Representative Bixby’s request, and reinstated a previously removed section. Supporters said the amendment now had clearer language and better safeguards, while some members still expressed reservations about the underlying policy.
Testimony from DHHS food safety officials emphasized that the department does not inspect custom-exempt facilities and would have little oversight unless there were a complaint or foodborne outbreak. They noted concerns about removing the September 1 to April 30 date range, explaining it had been included in the original bill because of temperature and storage concerns for large animals, and they also said the amendment appeared to focus documentation requirements on bison, elk, and red deer. Committee members and witnesses debated whether the proposal would create food safety risks, whether farmers should instead be educated and helped to aggregate processing capacity, and whether the bill would expose farmers, retailers, and restaurants to federal enforcement risk.
Rob Johnson of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau said the organization had recently voted down a policy opposing state regulations that would allow uninspected meat sales at retail, and he said he needed to consult further with Farm Bureau leadership before taking a position on HB 396. He suggested the bill should use the broader term “dairy and beef cattle” rather than “beef cows” for consistency. Supporters argued the bill would help small farmers, expand local food access, and reflect an intrastate policy choice despite conflict with federal law. The committee then moved into executive session and voted to approve amendment 2025-3090H, with members stating they would likely have different views on the bill itself.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Land Grant Aug 14th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And you created a Livestock Association at the urging of the federal government, who was willing to give
- The thing is that that Livestock Association status really didn't empower your land grant.
- Because there's a lot of ifs with the Livestock Association.
- I remember when we first started using GPS collars on Livestock communication with satellites was once
- With regards To the geotagging of livestock, I think that's a great idea.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Tue Feb 24, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- That the livestock owner is just out of luck.
- That the livestock owner is just out of luck.
- That the livestock owner is just out of luck.
- That the livestock owner is just out of luck.
- If not, Vice Chair for the vote. the livestock. Uh and so um I think I'd the livestock.
Committee:
House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs heard testimony on HB 1875, which would expand Hawaii’s existing protections to include gender-affirming health care, clarify permitted disclosures of protected health information, and bar certain adverse actions by malpractice insurers and health carriers against providers of lawful reproductive or gender-affirming care. The Insurance Division of DCCA supported the bill with a technical amendment, suggesting language tied to actuarial analysis rather than the phrase “actuarially sound.” The Office of Information Practices also provided comments.
Most testimony was strongly in support. State agencies and advocacy groups, including the Hawaii State Youth Commission, State Health Planning and Development Agency, Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Stonewall Caucus, ACLU of Hawaii, PFLAG Oahu, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the bill would protect patient privacy, reduce chilling effects from out-of-state litigation, and help retain providers in a state already facing shortages. Several testifiers said gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based, and life-saving, and emphasized that Hawaii should protect its own health care decisions from outside political pressure.
A few individuals testified in opposition, arguing the bill was unnecessary or that it protected providers more than opponents of the bill, but these views were not echoed by most of the testimony. The chair repeatedly reminded testifiers to keep comments brief and maintain decorum. The transcript provided does not include a final committee vote or disposition on the bill.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> procedure that if involves a livestock procedure that if involves a livestock that<00:34:18.159>
- </c><00:54:22.760><c> shows</c> rodeos eoin activities livestock shows rodeos eoin activities livestock
- </c> responsible pet owners livestock responsible pet owners livestock managers<01:08:30.799><c> conservationists
- </c> hunting Veterinary Care livestock hunting Veterinary Care livestock management<01:11:07.320><c>
- </c><01:11:17.560><c> owners</c> pet and livestock owners pet and livestock owners indefinitely<01:11
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture (11-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- One was you had to build a spot for you to put livestock fenced in.
- One was you had to build a spot for you to put livestock fenced in.
- One was you had to build a spot for you to put livestock fenced in.
- One was you had to build a spot for you to put livestock fenced in.
- One was you had to build a spot for you to put livestock fenced in.
Summary:
The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products.
Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December.
Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (11/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- If you look at the livestock statutes, the definition of livestock, it's dairy and beef cattle.
- Um, if you look at<00:27:02.559><c> the</c><00:27:02.799><c> livestock</c><00:27:03.520><c> statutes,
- </c><00:27:04.000><c> the</c> at the livestock statutes, the at the livestock statutes, the definition
- </c><00:27:06.080><c> dairy</c> definition of livestock, it's it's dairy definition of livestock, it's
- </c><01:02:03.440><c> in</c> and raise their cattle and livestock in and raise their cattle and livestock
Summary:
The Environment and Agriculture Committee held a work session and then an executive session on HB 396, which would allow processing of beef cows, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by USDA. Representative Comtois presented a revised amendment after earlier drafting issues were corrected. She explained that the amendment now limits the amenable species language to cuts of meat rather than meat food products, fixes labeling language, removes an exemption from federal law, strikes a seasonal date range, and restores a section that had been removed. She also said the amendment distinguishes between amenable and non-amenable species and keeps a registration statement acknowledging the federal-law conflict.
Committee members and witnesses debated the policy. Representative Howard questioned whether the bill should educate farmers rather than legislate them and raised concerns about requiring a farmer to register as violating federal law. Representative Comtois argued the bill supports small farmers, year-round meat processing, and intrastate activity, and described problems she said had occurred at USDA facilities. Representative Miner and others expressed support for moving the amendment forward. DHHS food safety officials testified that the department has no oversight of custom exempt facilities, that USDA is the only inspector in that system, and that if the bill passed there would be very limited regulatory oversight unless there were complaints or a foodborne outbreak. They also noted the original September 1 to April 30 date range had been tied to bison because of size and temperature concerns, and said the current language appeared to address bison, elk, and red deer documentation rather than the livestock species named in the bill.
The New Hampshire Farm Bureau’s policy director, Rob Johnson, said the organization had recently voted down a policy opposing state regulations that would allow uninspected meat sales at retail until federal law changes, and that he needed to consult further with leadership before taking a position on HB 396. He suggested the bill should use the term “beef cattle” for consistency with livestock statutes. In executive session, Representative Comtois moved to approve amendment 2025-3090H, Representative King seconded, and members reiterated both support and reservations. The transcript ends during executive-session discussion, with no final recorded vote on the bill shown in the excerpt.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Mar 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have one of the largest poultry and livestock industries in the U.S. and we know that avian flu influenza
- The composition would be experts in effect, infectious diseases, public health and livestock management
- The duties would be to monitor and report a vm influenza outbreaks and livestock study wastewater monitoring
- And it's also starting to affect livestock. Cows have started to be affected.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee BR Sub on General Government (2-27-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- right now, but it is mainly around hay needs for the cattle industry, horse industry, and other livestock
- 09:09.279><c> industry</c><00:09:09.640><c> and</c><00:09:09.760><c> other</c><00:09:10.000><c> livestocks
- </c> horse industry and other livestocks horse industry and other livestocks that's<00:09:10.760><c>
Summary:
The House Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government met with Commissioner of Agriculture Jonathan Shell to discuss the Department of Agriculture’s current budget priorities and the impact of recent legislative investments. Shell praised funding for the Farms to Food Bank program, saying it helps food banks serve Kentuckians, especially seniors, while also supporting farmers. He also highlighted County Fair Grant funding, noting a $250,000 increase helped finance a record nine county fair projects, and he described the Raising Hope rural mental health, suicide prevention, and farm safety program as life-saving, citing one event in Owensboro where 14 people were sent to the hospital after health screenings.
Shell also addressed emergency preparedness and bird flu response, saying the department’s Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response is working effectively and that Kentucky has not had affected commercial or backyard flocks, only some wild geese cases. He discussed federal efforts to address egg prices and avian influenza, including biosecurity, farmer relief, and research funding, and said he expects those actions to affect prices in the coming months. He also urged the committee to codify Senate Bill 28 and referenced House Joint Resolution 371, which he said would allow the department to retain $5 million for rural economic development efforts aimed at attracting processors and other large-scale operations.
In response to questions from Representative Hart, Shell said the department’s disaster role is mainly to coordinate response plans and identify agricultural needs for state and federal relief, rather than provide direct relief funding itself. He said recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky has mainly affected hay supplies for livestock producers, and that the department is working with the Cattlemen’s Association and UK Extension to locate affected farmers and secure hay donations. Shell closed by asking for continued support for agriculture economic development and for improved staff recruitment and retention, saying the department struggles to compete with other state agencies for employees. The meeting ended with thanks and adjournment, with the next meeting announced for the following Thursday.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Livestock is not taxed. Numismatics are not taxed. Livestock is not taxed.
- These figures will include farm machinery, livestock, numismatics, things that are exempt from sales
- We have a lot of items sold at auctions in our tax, such as farm machinery and livestock.
- Auction items, first of all—used auction items, not motors, not farm equipment, not livestock, used auction
- Used auction items, not motors, not farm equipment, not livestock, used auction items.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/16/26 - Part 3
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , especially cattle, that fund livestock, especially cattle, that fund has<00:30:00.680><c> been</c><
- Um, these farmers have already taken the necessary steps to build a fence to keep their livestock in
- The DNR has come alongside and said, "No, you need to do a secondary fence to keep the DNR's livestock
- This bill doesn't ask them to do the first fence that keeps the farmers' livestock in.
- This bill says they livestock in.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- It says 345-1A, and I think that's about livestock. Yeah. Is Am I wrong?
- And I think that's about livestock. Yeah. Is Am I wrong?
- It says 345-1A, and I think that's about livestock. Yeah. Is Am I wrong?
- It says 345-1A, and I think that's about livestock. Yeah. Is Am I wrong?
- And I think that's about livestock. Yeah. Is Am I wrong?
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/11/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> broader permission for livestock broader permission for livestock management<00:25:30.320><c> tasks
- I run Medicine Creek Farm in Finlisten, where we raise pastured livestock and sell our meat direct to
- I take great effort in being transparent and accountable about the way I raise my livestock.
- And livestock producers, they don’t fear competition, but we do need to have a level playing field for
- And livestock producers, they don’t fear competition, but we do need to have a level playing field for