Agency ruling could cost couple ability to participate in crop insurance, other programs
A husband and wife farming land in South Dakota that has been in their family for more than a century are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the federal agency determined their land contained wetlands – by looking at another parcel 33 miles away.
The feds could choose to penalize Arlen and Cindy Foster by depriving them of the ability to participate in vital federal programs such as crop insurance.
The Miner County, South Dakota, couple is represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, which has handled some of the highest-profile land-uses cases recently.
The complaint challenges the feds’ determination that 0.8 acres of the Fosters’ farm is “wetlands.” The government came to the conclusion after reviewing another parcel of land 33 miles away and finding it is similar.
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ReplyDeleteSo the FEDs have not even been on the land and are accusing the land owners because of a picture of another farmers land. That just does not make sense.
ReplyDeleteBut Ocean Pines was built in wetlands?
ReplyDeleteOcean Pines was built on a swamp, not just wetlands, even the loggers had trouble dragging the trees out before it was developed.
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