Below are highlights from the news headlines on WisBusiness.com published on September 16, 2019.
A coalition of dairy and livestock farmers is opposing revisions to the state’s administrative code that they warned “would severely limit livestock farming in Wisconsin.”
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is proposing updates to ATCP 51, a rule that serves as a template for local government on which to base their regulatory standards for manure storage.
DATCP spokeswoman Sara Walling countered the standards would only take effect for new or expanding livestock operations, and only if the operation’s local government decided to adopt them.
Walling said DATCP held a dozen public hearings on the proposed updates, but Cindy Leitner of the WDA claimed the agency had shut advocates out of the process by not including a farmer on the committee that proposed the revisions. She said her members regularly voiced their opposition to the proposed rule changes at the hearing but added there was often “no response.” “You just are there at the hearing and you’re stating your comment, but you haven’t solved anything,” she said.
See more on ATCP 51: http://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/LSRuleRevision.aspx
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