Issue Position: Letting Farmers Farm

Issue Position

If we really want to work with the ag community and get cleaner water throughout our state, we need to do a better job of listening to understand. The approach for several years now is to force rules and regulations instead of working with property owners and farmers - particularly on nitrate rules and buffer strips. If the state worked to understand more instead of working to mandate, we could get common sense laws passed that let farmers farm and still produce cleaner water. It's all about the approach.

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