Items Tagged with 'ballot initiative'

The fate of a 500,000-head capacity Superior Farms plant, estimated to represent between 15% and 20% of the nation’s total lamb processing capacity, will soon be in Denver voters’ hands as they consider a referendum that would shut down its operations by 2026 and ban any future meatpacking businesses from entering the city and county.

A broad coalition of ag and business groups are heavily opposing the ballot initiative, which proposes a tax increase on commercial property.

Agriculture is meant to be exempt from a ballot measure that would raise property taxes by repealing parts of Prop. 13 and replacing them with a split-roll tax.

A ballot initiative to convert 90% of all farms in California to organic has failed to gather enough signatures.