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Minnesota Senate Majority Leader says farm visits will help shape policy
A leader in the Minnesota Senate plans to use feedback from farmers to help build a legislative agenda for 2025.
Democrat Erin Murphy says she visited several farms over the summer and weather challenges came up frequently.
When I was up in Moorhead meeting with a newer farmer, she talked about how some of her fields just didn’t produce this year because of the way the rains happened in the early part of the year and what that means for her.”
She tells Brownfield Senate Ag Committee chair Aric Putnam has visited around 80 farms the past two years.
“The thing that I love about what Senator Putnam is talking about is that the next ag bill that gets drafted in ’25 in our budget year next year will be written on the farm and not in the capitol.”
Murphy says that means everything Senator Putnam has experienced and learned about will be poured into that work.
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