Right-to-farm country: livestock and field practices are protected

Buy a place beside pasture or crop ground in Bollinger County, and it helps to know one Missouri farm rule. A farm that has run for more than one year is usually protected from a nuisance claim just because the area around it changed. The law still has limits. It does not protect negligent or improper work, pollution, or a public-health hazard.

There is one date-specific limit too. The law does not cover a nuisance from a farm that was already inside a city, town, or village on August 13, 1982.

Fence questions use a different set of rules. Bollinger is not one of the local-option fence-law counties in the MU guide. Most division-fence questions start with Missouri’s general fence law. Near Marble Hill, Burfordville, or a rural road, expect farm noise, dust, animals, and fence upkeep to be legal and neighbor questions, not just personal preferences.