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Minnesota's Stake Growing in Next Farm Bill

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Ann Arbor, MI - A group promoting Great Lakes conservation, water quality and wildlife says Minnesota has a huge stake in the farm bill now being written, and will have a big say. Gildo Tori with Ducks Unlimited says the Wetlands Reserve Program is a top priority.

"This program helps farmers, and, in Minnesota, over 62,000 acres of wetlands have been protected and restored through the Wetland Reserve Program. This gives great benefits to people in Minnesota that like waterfowl, whether to hunt them or to watch them."

He says the conservation provisions are good for the ag community and the Great Lakes, and a solid farm bill will benefit farmers, hunters, angler, and all Great Lakes area citizens. Tori adds the farm plan will impact the state's recreation and quality of life.

"Key for Minnesota sportsmen, conservationists and environmentalists is clean water and soil erosion and wildlife habitat. Without these programs in the farm bill, Minnesotans will lose out with lower quality of life, lower water quality, and reduced wildlife. And, those are things that most people believe in and appreciate and want to see continued in the 2007 Farm Bill."

A new report finds over a thousand Great Lakes farmers who want to enroll more than 110,000 acres in the program are out of luck because of inadequate funding. Tori believes the Conservation Reserve Program also needs more support.

Rep. Colin Peterson heads the House Agricultural Committee, and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is chair of the Senate Committee. Both Sens. Coleman and Klobechar serve on that committee as well.

For more information online, go to www.nwf.org. The report is at www.healthylakes.org.


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