Dan Durheim was raised on a farm in central Minnesota and spent most of the last three decades with Farm Bureau at the state and national level. Just over six months ago, Durheim took over as the chief operating officer for the California Farm Bureau. Durheim said the farmers in California have the same passion for agriculture seen in the Midwest, but there is greater intensity. That’s due in large part to the regulatory environment. “A new study from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo that was funded by the Monterey County Farm Bureau showed that in the last 18 years, the farmer has had a 1,368 percent increase in the regulatory costs in their operation,” said Durheim. “That’s a really daunting number when you consider what needs to be done to have that social license to operate.” Durheim was one of 1,100 candidates for the job when he was hired last summer.
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