State Ag Groups Not Happy with Revisions to Livestock Siting Standards
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 -- 9:45 AM
(WRN) -Groups representing the state's ag producers are not happy, with proposed revisions to the state's livestock siting standards. Cyndi Leitner is President of the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance…"The fact that there was not even one farmer on the tech committee that proposed the revisions, should speak loudly. The primary stakeholders were ignored."
Leitner also discussed the reality of there being more local control.
"We've changed this from being a state-run type of a rule to, in this proposed revision, to changing it to have more and more local authority. And that's exactly what we didn't want to do with the rule. If this comes through, with the climate that we have today, with all the anti-CAFO stuff that's going today, I can assure you that every county and town is going to adopt this, because it will give them control."
Tom Crave is president of the Dairy Business Association…
"It was designed to try to give some consistency and help local government, townships have some regulation with guidance from the state, which it did. But I'm afraid with the rule changes that are being proposed, it's going to be so strict that it's going go cause more conflict."
A group of 11 ag lobbying groups are asking DATCP to consider their concerns.
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