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Senate committee moves bill allowing on‑farm composting of routine livestock mortalities with BMPs and notification requirements
Summary
AB 411 would permit ranchers to compost routine livestock carcasses on their farms under CDFA-developed best management practices and notification to local enforcement agencies. Supporters cited UC research showing safe composting; renderers and labor unions opposed unless amendments add enforceable oversight, caps and training requirements.
Assemblymember Pappin presented AB 411 to the Senate Agriculture Committee, saying the bill would allow ranchers to compost routine livestock mortalities on-farm as an alternative to burial, rendering or bone piles.
Laura Snell, a University of California Cooperative Extension livestock and natural resources advisor in Modoc County, described multi-year research conducted under exemptions that monitored over 30 composting cycles in two Northern California locations. Snell said their research showed whole-carcass…
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