Minnesota Representative John Burkel of Badger serves on both the agriculture and environment committees, is disappointed in the efforts to increase the regulatory pressure on farmers. That includes a proposal to require an Environmental Impact Study for any farm with more than 10,000 animal units. “It would probably eliminate anybody’s ability to expand and once again opens the door to the conversation about dropping that threshold to 5,000 or 1,000 animal units in the future. It puts the brakes on any expansion of animal agriculture in Minnesota.” Burkel hopes this language won’t survive the conference committee process.
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