People need agriculture but they also like clean water,
maybe reduce productivity for sustainability. If a farmer's having to give up
50 feet of his land for ditches to hold runoff from nitrogen fertilizer/animal
waste, Dayton's proposal, then they should be compensated for their land, 16
feet is the current law for ditches to water ways. We need to find a middle
ground or implement disposal methods other than the current one. Big Ag is destroying local farmers
along with the environment. There should be some measure of accountability when
it comes to pollution and Minnesota's government just did away with the Citizens' Board of MPCA after 50
years of conservation all because a few Big Ag companies, who did not have
their silver platter handed to them, went elsewhere.
