An industrial chicken farm [like Foster Farms] can produce 4,500 tons of poultry waste each year. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) like these house hundreds, to thousands, to in this case " millions of animals packed inside barns. Concerned about their water quality, air quality and traffic on the roads, "a core group of women farmers" got together to form Farmers Against Foster Farms. Their advocacy ultimately resulted in the passage of Senate Bill 85, which changed the rules regarding factory farms. It requires stricter water quality requirements for large CAFOs to obtain a permit, gives local governments the authority to establish land parcel setback limits for new CAFOs and temporarily pauses new or expanded water rights permits for CAFOs using groundwater for livestock watering. When the bill went into effect in July 2023, it gave the J-S Ranch protestors something big to work with. On May 19, 2025, approximately five years after their advocacy began, the groups were delivered a victory: Judge Rachel Kittson-MaQatish ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture's NPDES permit for the 3.5 million chicken factory farm was, in fact, unlawful. Kimbirauskas has some advice for communities facing similar fights. First, pace yourselves. These fights are marathons, not sprints, [local citizen Kendra Kimbirauskas] says. The community can unite around a shared goal. "People were not divided along political ideologies. There were Republicans, Democrats, everything in between, all coming together to say, this is not right for this area, or frankly, any area," [Kendra Kimbirauskas] says.