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Today’s Fact: 9 Days Until Hemp Meeting on Monday, January 6th Day 9. MORE ABOUT THOSE BEST MANAGMENT PRACTICES (BMP’s) FOR HEMP The Ag Commissioner MAY adopt, amend or rescind required best management practices. Section 37-6A of the Draft Hemp ordinance/ Required BMP’s Parallel language on Recommended BMP’s in Section 37-6B of the …
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Today’s Fact: 17 Days Until Hemp Meeting on Monday, January 6th Day 17. The “Right to Farm” protection is not inviolate. It only applies to Ag crops grown on Ag land (DA, LIA and LEA), and an operation can be declared a nuisance (per State law) for up to three years after the start of the operation …
Right time to challenge Misconstrued Entitlement. “The primary beneficiary of right to farm amendments would be large corporately-controlled, industrial operations. At the very least, a constitutional “right to farm” would lead to endless, costly litigation which corporate agriculture believes they could win. The corporations’ commitment is to their stockholders, not to consumers, farmers, or rural …
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“If environmentalists fully understood the damage done by such laws, they would push not for stronger regulation but for stronger property rights. Our experience with agricultural pollution demonstrates that nothing more effectively protects the environment than does a population empowered with strong property rights.” A right to harm: How right-to-farm laws violate rural residents’ property …
“Right to farm amendments are but the latest and boldest tactics of corporate, industrial agriculture to protect itself from growing public concerns about the overall integrity of the American food system……..There is no economic justification for exempting industrial agriculture from the environmental and public health regulations……” 10 Reasons to Oppose ‘Right to Farm’ Amendments:Civil Eats …