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Jacob




Hello from St. Paul,

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Last month, I alerted you to the news that a number of environmental organizations ? including Land Stewardship Project - have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asked it to mandate moratoriums on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in our area.

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If successful, it would devastate animal agriculture in southeastern Minnesota. Not only do the petitioners want the EPA to prohibit the expansion of CAFOs, they also want to prohibit any modifications to their operations. They also ask the EPA to, once it decides who should be blamed for nitrate contamination, require those responsible to supply free, clean drinking water to owners of area private wells, and require CAFOs and other farms using nitrogen fertilizers to change their practices.

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On October 3, the Subcommittee on Minnesota Water Policy held a meeting on the EPA request. The only ?farmer? who testified at the hearing raises herbs and flowers, is not from southeastern Minnesota, and spoke in favor of the EPA request.

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The subcommittee agreed to continue the hearing and take further testimony on the EPA topic on November 14th at 9:00 a.m. If you wish to testify before the committee and share your thoughts on this potential action, I urge you to contact Jim Stark, LCC Subcommittee on Water Policy, as soon as you can by email at [email protected], or call 651-284-6431 and let him know you would like to speak. If you want to watch the proceedings, you will be able to see it online at www.lcc.mn.gov/smwp/Meetings_2023.html [ [link removed] ].

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In my opinion, the petition is a scheme to circumvent the local process and shut down animal agriculture, specifically dairy farms. I have always been a strong advocate for environmental issues, but giving government control over family farms is not the way to go about it. I encourage anyone interested in the EPA topic to please make time to either watch the hearing on November 14, or better yet, sign up to directly share your feelings.

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Talk to you soon,

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Steve

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