According to Minnesota House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Paul Anderson, one of the key bills impacting farmers is moving through the Environment Committee, It deals with feeding operations of over 10,000 head. “The bill would mandate doing a very expensive environmental impact statement that really would make it difficult for any feedlots of that size to be proposed and built in Minnesota,” said Anderson. There’s also a proposed ban on growing corn on state-owned land. Water quality is the main concern for supporters. “The concern with that would be that already there’s deer depredation damage on crops.” Anderson is concerned that this would cause more deer depredation on privately owned land. Click here for the full interview with Representative Paul Anderson.
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