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Thursday, June 03, 2021

Sounds like California, not South Dakota

A South Dakota farmer is suing the federal government after its Agriculture Department ordered him not to farm his farm. 

It seems the Washington bureaucrats have determined that a mud puddle in one of his fields is a protected "wetlands."

11 comments:

  1. Sounds like the totalitarians in the Biden administration are reinstituting enforcement of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Act again. Tyranny writ large.

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  2. If a farmer can be told to not grow grain on his own land, to feed his own animals, because it interferes with interstate commerce; then this should not come as a surprise.

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  3. There's a cure for these over stepping federal bureaucrats, especially if you own a backhoe or wood chipper.

    Notice they never tried to pull this kind of bullshit when Trump was pres.

    Nemo

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    1. No, but they constantly tried to pull it when Obama and Valarie were Preezy and Vice Preezy.
      And your solution to this problem is spot on.

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    2. The fat ones won't fit in the woodchipper! What do I do now?!?!? Asking for a friend!
      -ernie

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    3. Take a meatcutter's course. Or purchase a few dingoes or hogs; sell the hogs to a slaughterhouse that supplies Chinese restaurants (just ask Pinkton.)

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    4. -ernie:
      Get a bigger chipper.
      https://www.morbark.com/products/chiparvestors/

      Elmo, answering for a friend.

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  4. A friend of mine in Eugene Oregon built a decorative pond in his back yard and then a few years later applied for a permit to build a backyard studio. The city claimed the back yard was a wetland.

    Friend eventually prevailed.

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    1. Speaking of Eugene, Oregon:
      First, just about the entire Willamette Valley is a swamp.
      The remainder of your friend's property is merely dampish compared to his new pond.

      Second, the youngsters at The Planning Department of TheWorld'sMostProgressiveCity© were in college last week.
      They have the construction experience of Black© mold..
      They have less clue than a headless chicken.
      They infinite authority, they have no responsibility, they thrive on pulling out TheBigBook so they can point to a reason to say 'NO!'.

      Accordingly, they are best ignored.
      A soft secession, without all those endless speeches and other annoying noise.

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  5. The SCt case that held that Federal interstate commerce regulations applied to farming grain used for feed on the same farm was FDRoosevelt.
    John in Indy

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  6. So is it really a "wetland" when it's only wet part of the year?

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