6000 Idaho Farmers with 500,000 Acres Needing Water Shut Off by State

June 18, 2024 — bunkerville

Shutting off water to a farmer is a drastic move. Especially after he has already planted his crops in for the year. You would think the Idaho bureaucrats would have gotten their predictor guy predicting before it got this far. The whole story gets even more bizarre as this is Idaho State so we can’t blame D.C. Here we go:

Affected farmers in Idaho say the order to shut their water off was issued after they already paid to plant and fertilize their crops.If the water is shut off, Young said that would mean a total loss for this year’s wheat and barley crop and he would expect to get one cutting of alfalfa in, instead of the three he hoped for.“Being done for this year means absorbing several million dollars in losses this year and we don’t recover from that,” Young said in a phone interview. “That would spell the end of our business and that’s true for everybody else frankly who is farming.”

Young is among the eastern Idaho and Magic Valley family farmers and other water users who hold the 6,400 groundwater rights that are subject to curtailment. The Idaho Department of Water Resources said those water rights holders are being subject to curtailment because they are not in compliance with a state plan.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources said curtailment – or shutting off the water – is necessary because of a predicted water shortfall this year.

When it announced the curtailment order Thursday afternoon, the Idaho Department of Water Resources estimated 500,000 acres of farmland could be affected by shutting off the water.

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Not to get in the weeds but…..then we learn the process of who gets cut: There are junior and senior groundwater rights holders.

How are water issues governed in Idaho?

On Thursday, Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a curtailment order that requires 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their water, the Idaho Capital Sun previously reported.

From the Idaho Capital Sun Read more

“Not sure how much longer we will farm. This water curtailment will put us out of business.

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Is America Ready for the Reality World of Kristi Noem?

April 30, 2024 — bunkerville

Perhaps Noem’s shock therapy description of life on the farm for average Joe and Mary was a bit rich, but life on the farm is tough. 4H kids that I knew raised their animals to win ribbons. Of course they became attached to them but everyone knew their ultimate destiny.

Rural life is rugged. At night, the baying of dogs running deer is one of the worst sounds one can hear. No need to describe what happens when the deer runs out of energy. Once you see it you don’t forget it. What to do with the dog?

So to some extent I can understand where Kristi is coming from. There are reports that the story of the dispensing of the dog was going to come out anyway, so the better to get ahead of it.

One thing for sure. She has had her “Michael Dukakis moment.” When the former Presidential candidate was seen riding around in a tank.  Her time in the spotlight is no doubt about over.

Of course we have Biden’s lovely pet dogs that bite. One that bit 25 people. They get to go to a farm to “live happily ever after.” Sure they did.

But not to let a story go to waste, I picked up this Vanity Fair piece. No puff piece for sure. Even better of course, it lays it on Trump. But let’s not waste time, here goes:

Days after it was revealed that her new book includes a graphic account of her killing a pet dog (and goat), South Dakota governor Kristi Noem has doubled down on having committed pooch-icide, claiming the story is evidence that she’s an “authentic” leader.

Taking to X following deafening backlash—she was dubbed “evil,” “trash,” and “Jeffrey Dahmer with veneers,” among other things—Noem wrote Sunday that she “can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch.” She included the bizarre anecdote, though, because she believes “people are looking for leaders who are authentic, willing to learn from the past, and don’t shy away from tough challenges,” i.e., shooting their own dog. She added, for those wondering if criminal charges might be possible, that “South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down.”

Noem’s weekend comments followed earlier remarks addressing the dog-killing story. On Friday, she said on social media: “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.” That’s right, she added to her publicly known body count!

As we wrote last week, “while the tales of dog- and goat-killing probably won’t play well with many Americans, as most famously love dogs and regard them as family members, they might actually win her points with the ex-president, who famously hates man’s best friend.” On Monday, Semafor reported that “the median reaction when…checked around Trumpworld was ‘WTF,’ although some noted her chances [of becoming Trump’s running mate] were considered slim already—her take on abortion is to his right, and she filmed an odd infomercial for a Texas dental clinic last month, among other issues.”

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Inside Edition takes a crack at the story.

Of course farmers always take troublesome destructive animals for a trip to the Vet to be euthanized. Especially in South Dakota where probably it was a worth a half a day ride back and forth.

Did she handle this half way right? Nope. What say you?

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12 State AG Secretaries Warn Large Banks About UN Net Zero Participation

January 31, 2024 — bunkerville

A sleeper story that deserves attention. Much of Europe is being rocked by demonstrations of farmers protesting. Yesterday the French farmers began an assault on Paris, threatening to block all road leading into Paris. Belgium too joined the protests.

The undisclosed intent of governments is to ultimately control our food supply and put the farmer out of business. The farmer is paying the price.

The European Union is pushing hard. Last year Bunk posted:

European Union Fires the shot to start WWIII in the Netherlands

The Netherlands are about to lose many of their farms by confiscation. At least an attempt at that is in the process. How did the Netherlands get here? “Essentially, the EU has now achieved what Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler failed to achieve between 1914 – 1945”.

The Netherland is the number two exporter of food, second only to the U.S. While we keep hearing about Ukraine as the breadbasket, it is the Dutch who lead.

Here in the U.S. a more sinister approach is in the making to control our food supply. Not limited to controlling farms. The fossil fuel industry; iron, steel and cement manufacturing; and real estate. This under the guise of the U.N. It will be the banks who will be the Headless Horseman.

Back in 2011 I posted this and I doubt it has gotten any less in 2024:

10 Banks Own 77 Percent Of All U.S. Banking Assets

A sage opinion then:

They are predators.

In fact, a very revealing article in Rolling Stone described Goldman Sachs this way….

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Unfortunately, they may have actually been understating things a bit.

These megabanks have rigged the game so that the wealth of the nation is slowly transferred from us to themselves and to the international financial interests that control them.

They can make money if the markets are going up, and they can make money if the markets are going down.

We pick up the story at Zero Hedge

“It Must Be Stopped”: 12 Agriculture Officials Warn Largest U.S. Banks About Net Zero Agenda

A dozen Republican state agriculture commissioners have penned a letter to six U.S. megabanks, informing them that their push for ESG investing could wind up leading to price increases and may impact food availability.

The letter was sent to executives at Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo and took exception with the group’s membership in the UN organized Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), according to Fox News.

According to the United Nations, which organized the formation of the NZBA, the alliance is a global group of financial institutions “committed to financing ambitious climate action” to transition the economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The NZBA’s framework encourages its member banks to additionally “design, set, and achieve” science-based net zero targets for 2030 or sooner.

The alliance issued a progress report during last month’s U.N. climate summit in Dubai, highlighting how two-thirds of its growing membership pool had made aggressive green energy commitments. The report further noted that member banks are increasingly targeting the power sector; fossil fuel industry; iron, steel and cement manufacturing; and real estate.

The NZBA is “committed to financing ambitious climate action” and is attempting to force the economy to net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050. The letter notes that this could result in “severe consequences” for farmers.

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They said the goal of net zero emissions could “permanently damage American agriculture and endanger our country’s food security” and said that “American farmers should not be forced to put our food supply at risk.”

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper commented to Fox: “American agriculture is sending a clear signal: we will not bend the knee to the failed, left-wing climate agenda of the United Nations that seeks to cripple one of our country’s most critical industries.”

“Now more than ever, banks that do business with America should be unquestionably supporting American industries — and that starts with the one that puts food on our tables, clothes on our backs, and shelter over our heads.”

Harper continued: “The UN’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance would be the equivalent of a run on the bank for our nation’s agriculture industry and pose a serious threat to our national security — and it must be stopped.”

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Kerry Says Too Many Humans – We gotta go, Bessie the Cow Goes Too

July 31, 2023 — bunkerville

We would be wise to keep track of this fellow, John Kerry. We know his Shtick… but he has gone to the place with the overused phrase “speaking the quiet part out loud.” Attacking farmers and our food supply. Too many of us. He is not alone.

Frequent private jet passenger, John Kerry, admits that destruction of the farming industry is essential to achieving ‘Net Zero’: “Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world. And we can’t get to net zero—we don’t get this job done—unless agriculture is front and centre as part of the solution.” “You just can’t continue to both warm the planet, while also expecting to feed it. It doesn’t work. So we have to reduce emissions from the food system.”

United States Signs Commitment Placing Farmers Under Restrictions to Reduce Methane Gas.

June 2, 2023 — bunkerville

While the warnings are out about the coming world-wide food shortages we find that more efforts are being implemented on containing Methane gas of farms world-wide. We know how things worked out in Pakistan. It was decided earlier that going “green” was the way to go among other issues. Let’s make it world-wide catastrophe.

 

 

Buried within the multitude of congressional hearings the past couple of weeks, was our man. So far we have been sitting back watching the Netherlands, and now Ireland going after farmers and cutting production. It would behove us not to sit back on this one. After all, the planet is at stake he claims.

He has a plan. You and me gotta go. Bessie the milk cow has to go.

Mr. Wonderful aka O’Leary responds to this latest nonsense.

He reacts to John Kerry targeting the agriculture industry in his latest green energy push on ‘The Big Money Show.’

Earlier Bunk’s posts-

Ireland Proposes killing 200,000 Cows For Climate Agenda

VP Kamala Harris Calls To ‘Reduce Population’—She Means ‘Pollution’- or does she?

Netherlands Shuts Down Farms to Meet Climate Change Mandates

Zero Hedge has an interesting piece and worth a look.

Are You Willing To Starve For The Greater Good?

..when the foolish planners attempt to circumvent market determined price signals, bad stuff happens.

Central planners are pulling double shifts.  Contriving plans and proposals to control what you consume, how you travel and cook, where your money is spent, and much, much more.

You know who we’re talking about.  The Davos WEF crowd.  The UN, IMF, World Bank, and central bankers.  Washington lobbyists, NGOs, public/private partnerships, technical advisory committees, nonprofits, and everything in between.  We’re also talking about your meddling neighbor, and many others.

What’s their deal?  Do they think they’re making the world a better place?  And, if so, a better place for who – them or you?

Could something more devious be guiding their advancements?

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Netherlands Shuts Down Farms to Meet Climate Change Mandates

June 30, 2022 — bunkerville

Under the the guise of reducing “pollutants” the E.U. has found an easy target. Farmers. Considering the amount of pollutants industry produces, how the cow became the target leads one to speculate that an additional agenda may be afoot. We learn that Germany is going to start up its coal fired energy plants to meet their shortage of energy. One would assume that they will exceed their mandated “footprint.”

One only needs to look at CAP (European Union’s common agricultural policy) reform to find the cause of the latest attack on farmers and the world’s food supply. One step closer to getting to Bill Gates dream of meatless meat.

The new CAP

To consolidate the role of European agriculture for the future, the CAP has evolved over the years to meet changing economic circumstances and citizens’ requirements and needs.

In June 2018, the European Commission presented legislative proposals for a new CAP. The proposals outlined a simpler and more efficient policy that will incorporate the sustainable ambitions of the European Green Deal.

After extensive negotiations between the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission, agreement was reached on CAP reform and the new CAP was formally adopted on 2 December, 2021. The new CAP is due to be implemented from 1 January 2023.

Factsheet – a greener and fairer CAP

24 February 2022
English (1.9 MB – PDF)

DownloadPDF – 1.9 MB

Source: European Commission

Dutch farmers angry over mandatory measures to drastically reduce nitrogen emissions

THE HAGUE – Farmers protested around the Netherlands as lawmakers voted Tuesday on proposals to slash emissions of damaging pollutants, a plan that will likely force farmers to cut their livestock herds or stop work altogether.

The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part of a network of protected habitats for endangered plants and wildlife stretching across the 27-nation European Union

The ruling coalition wants to cut emissions of pollutants, predominantly nitrogen oxide and ammonia, by 50% nationwide by 2030. Ministers call the proposal an “unavoidable transition” that aims to improve air, land and water quality.

They warn that farmers will have to adapt or face the prospect of shuttering their businesses.

“The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business,” and those who do will likely have to farm differently, the government said in a statement this month as it unveiled emission reduction targets.

Livestock produce ammonia in their urine and feces. The government in the past has called on farmers to use feed for their animals that contains less protein as a way of reducing ammonia emissions.

Farmers argue that they are being unfairly targeted as polluters while other industries, such as aviation, construction and transport, also are contributing to emissions and face less far-reaching rules. They also say the government is not giving them a clear picture of their futures amid the proposed reforms.

The government has been forced to take action after a series of court rulings that blocked infrastructure and construction projects because of fears they would cause emissions that breach environmental rules. It is giving provincial authorities a year to work out ways to meet the emission reduction targets.

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And how are things going in France?

French farmers have been protesting over the past several years.

Up to 1,000 tractors rolled into the French capital as part of the demonstration. Resentment has been growing among farmers over what they call “agri-bashing.”

They say they are being unfairly blamed for environmental and animal welfare issues.

The low pitch rumble and hum of tractor engines and the thump, thump, thump of steel-capped leather boots filled the streets of Clermont Ferrand, France, as over 2,000 French farmers and 400 tractors marched and rolled into Pace de Jaude, the city square.

Farmers descended into the town in protest over new legislation aimed at taxing the use of nitrogen fertilizer. It was a show of union power against a national food law and CAP (European Union’s common agricultural policy) reform, according to FNSEA (Federation Nationale des Syndicats d’exploitants agricoles), France’s largest farmers union, and Jeunes Agriculteurs (national youth farmer organization).

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Conclusion: All predicted and going as planned.

United Nations
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

How Bill Gates Will Force You To Eat Fake Meat

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Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that threaten the food supply and will force farmers to ‘hasten transitions.’

May 3, 2022 — bunkerville

 

 

You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Love this quote by President Eisenhower. The ruling class is clueless when it comes to producing food. Just who is Samantha? One dangerous lady who dislikes America with a passion. More to follow.

Our gal Samantha. Never was there a war she didn’t like. She, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton who managed to blow up the Middle East and who can forget Libya. Back in 2011 I posted:

Three women who brought us the new long war in Libya

So she breeches again. How about the food shortages in Libya Samantha?

 

A Biden administration member said that “catastrophic” food and fertilizer shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine are a great opportunity to implement left-wing policies.

Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, made the comments during an interview with “This Week” on Sunday.

“We’re seeing global food shortages all around the world,” said anchor George Stephanopoulos, “as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, what more can be done to address those shortages?”

Hint: Power said they were working to increase food production from farmers, but also wanted to use the opportunity to make farmers choose green energy alternatives to fertilizer.

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Flashback

In 2002 Samantha Power made a statement, calling for a U.S. military invasion of Israel. Full transcript available at the youtube site.

Commentary Magazine: (An excellent piece, well worth the full read on our gal)

 

 

 

In a 2003 article for the New Republic, Power:  “The U.S,” she wrote, “came to be seen less as it sees itself (the cop protecting the world from rogue nations) than as the very runaway state international law needs to contain.”

Power wrote that America’s record in world affairs had been so harmful to the freedoms of people around the world that the United States could remedy the problem only through profound self-criticism and the wholesale adoption of new policies. Acknowledging that President Bush was correct in saying that “some America-bashers” hate the American people’s freedoms, Ms. Power stated that much anti-Americanism derives from the role that U.S. power “has played in denying such freedoms to others” and concluded:

U.S. foreign policy has to be rethought. It needs not tweaking but overhauling….Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors. When [then German Chancellor] Willie [sic] Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto, his gesture was gratifying to World War II survivors, but it was also ennobling and cathartic for Germany. Would such an approach be futile for the United States?

Who is Samantha Power, Irish Pro-Palestinian Activist (see also Ed Lasky, American Thinker) -a good piece on the danger to Israel.

 

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Family Farm Could Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name

April 20, 2018 — bunkerville

 

An Orwellian dystopia. In what kind of universe does a dairy farmer have to label skim milk from a cow as artificial milk, but if he adds artificial vitamins to it, he can call it natural skim milk? I know, in a leftist dream world. Ridiculous. Of course, this fine family is going to court for the fight of their life:

 

Forget narcotics. Uncle Sam has a new substance to crack down on: all-natural skim milk.

Food and Drug Administration regulations make it a federal crime for dairy farmers to call all-natural skim milk exactly what it is—skim milk. Instead, the FDA demands that farmers label additive-free skim milk as “imitation milk product,” because, in the FDA’s mind, skim milk just isn’t the real thing.

Randy and Karen Sowers founded their South Mountain Creamery in Maryland on rented land back in 1981. They took out a loan and bought 100 cows. Today, three generations of Sowers work on their family’s 2,200 acre farm. They have more than 600 cattle, plus 16,000 chickens. Their family employs more than 75 people.

Randy Sowers wants to sell his milk in Pennsylvania, which is no problem under Pennsylvania law.

But under FDA regulations, in order for him to sell skim milk across state lines with an honest label (“skim milk”), it needs to have some dishonest additives: artificial vitamins A and D, in amounts set by federal regulation.

Without those additives, the FDA requires Sowers to call his product “imitation skim milk” or “imitation milk product.”

This will not be the first time that the Sowers have challenged the federal government. In 2012, federal agents seized the money in their bank account alleging that they had committed the crime of “structuring”: withdrawing or depositing cash in sums of less than $10,000 in order to evade reporting laws.

The couple had just been depositing the cash they earned at weekend farmers markets. So, they fought back until the money was returned, four years later. More at the Daily Signal

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New Executive Order – food, gas prices to skyrocket

August 19, 2013 — bunkerville

Here is a White House Executive Order that should raise the price of food and gas to be prohibitive. Enough rules and regs and most businesses bend under the weight. An outright ban? Not sure about that, but farmers will bear the cost and burden. We will no doubt end up riding bicycles and foraging for food if Obama has his way.

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Just as Stalin starved millions in the Ukraine as part of his consolidation of
power this administration with Obama as it’s figurehead are planning on
starving their intended subjects into submission.

Obama issued an Executive order on August 1, 2013 that will effectively ban Ammonium Nitrate in the USA. It will become too expensive and create too much possible civil and criminal liability to manufacture, store, or transport it.  Clinton did the same thing to Anhydrous Ammonia dealers in 1999.  It put most Anhydrous dealers out of business.  Obama is imposing the same regs and adding explosives regulations on top of OSHA and EPA regulations.  It’s all there if you know how to read bureacratese.

Tannerite will probably be banned outright as soon as DHS & BATFE finish making policy based on this E.O.  Whether or not they can criminalize it I don’t know.  You can count on it being taken off the market though.  The government has had it’s sights on Tannerite for a long time now.

Food and Fuel prices will skyrocket because Ammonium Nitrate forms the basis for almost all nitrogen in granular fertilizers used in American farming.  There are no cost and ease of manufacture/use equivalents for ammonium nitrate.  Supply and demand economics are going to be the harsh lesson of the day.  Crop yields will go down.  Corn is the basis for the American food supply and the fuel additive ethanol.  A.N. is critical in corn production.

This is my take on the first step in the E.O. to gain control of this commodity. Always a pilot program first.

(a) Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Working Group shall deploy a
pilot program, involving the EPA, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland  Security, and any other appropriate agency, to validate best practices and to  test innovative methods for Federal interagency collaboration regarding chemical  facility safety and security. The pilot program shall operate in at least one region and shall integrate regional Federal, State, local, and tribal assets, where appropriate. The pilot program shall include innovative and effective methods of collecting, storing, and using facility information, stakeholder outreach, inspection planning, and, as appropriate, joint inspection efforts.
The Working Group shall take into account the results of the pilot program in developing integrated standard operating procedures pursuant to subsection (b)  of this section.

Thanks to Always on Watch for the link.

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Obama tells farmers not to worry about over-regulation

August 19, 2011 — bunkerville

On Obama’s magical mystery bus tour recently, I caught a clip on TV of a farmer talking to Obama about his concerns. I have not been able to find the clip, but did find this piece. What a joke, what a liar.Why the farmer didn’t give him an earful when he had a chance escapes me. But then, I could hardly find this small piece on the incident. UPDATE: Here is a more complete report:

Here is the video of the  Farmer and Obama exchange here

Call Uncle Sam  At Wednesday’s town hall in Atkinson, Ill., a local farmer who said he grows corn and soybeans expressed his concerns to President Barack Obama about “more rules and regulations” — including those concerning dust, noise and water runoff — that he heard would negatively affect his business.

The president, on day three of his Midwest bus tour, replied: “If you hear something is happening, but it hasn’t happened, don’t always believe what you hear.”

When the room broke into soft laughter, the president added, “No — and I’m serious about that.”

Saying that “folks in Washington” like to get “all ginned up” about things that aren’t necessarily happening (“Look what’s comin’ down the pipe!”), Obama’s advice was simple: “Contact USDA.”

“Talk to them directly. Find out what it is that you’re concerned about,” Obama told the man. “My suspicion is, a lot of times, they’re going to be able to answer your questions and it will turn out that some of your fears are unfounded.”

For once, Obama has told the truth. “Don’t always believe what you hear” should be the rally cry for all the farmers, raw dairy producers and consumers harmed by government actions taking place under the Obama administration – actions which can only be called war against the People and crimes against nature. More at the  Daily Bell

And then we have the Obama telling farmers they need Comercial Drivers Licenses. Famly farm under new attack . Right, don’t worry, be happy.

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EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust

August 2, 2010 — bunkerville

Now out to destory the farms

Now out to destory the farms

The EPA is out of their minds. Abolish the EPA!

If approved, this would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation’s history… or at least since 1978, when my mom switched to a Dyson vacuum cleaner featuring cyclonic separation.

 “Many in the Oklahoma farming industry are opposed to the EPA’s consideration. One farmer said the possible regulations are ridiculous,” which really, even on the face of it, barely needs any further explanation whatsoever.

Look at our earlier story: EPA goes after Amish Farmers: Here

Yes, destroy our farms and the Government can take them over. Thats the plan isn’t it?

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.

The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states, “If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation’s history.” It further states, “We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether its livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event.” Read the letter to EPA signed by 21 senators including Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn

Many in the Oklahoma farming industry are opposed to the EPA’s consideration. One farmer said the possible regulations are ridiculous.

“It’s plain common sense, we don’t want to do anything detrimental,” said farmer Curtis Roberts. “If the dust is detrimental to us, it’s going to be to everybody. We’re not going to do anything to hurt ourselves or our farm.”

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