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Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« on: March 31, 2024, 12:43:23 pm »
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 3/31/2024

The radical left-wing anti-farm green agenda isn’t just trying to destroy agriculture in foreign locales like The Netherlands, it’s also happening in Oregon.

•  “The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease and desist letters to farms.” (By “market gardens” he means small farms that only supply produce locally.)

•  “They’re using satellite technology to find their victims and then send them these letters, and say you can’t operate, and they’re doing it in the name of water conservation.”

•  “Oregon’s government and dairy industry [have joined] forces against small farmers.”

•  “There are two different laws that they’re using.”

•  “They’ve redefined what a CAFO is.” CAFO stands for “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation.” According to Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge, a CAFO is where “over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year. An animal unit is the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of “live” animal weight.[1] A thousand animal units equates to 700 dairy cows, 1,000 meat cows, 2,500 pigs weighing more than 55 pounds (25 kg), 10,000 pigs weighing under 55 pounds, 10,000 sheep, 55,000 turkeys, 125,000 chickens, or 82,000 egg laying hens or pullets.”

•  Oregon seems to have redefined that. “This applies to people who have chicken houses, who have goat farms, basically anybody who has a barn or a facility that has a gravel or concrete floor.”

•  “What’s happening in Oregon, and why the small dairies have filed a lawsuit against the state…it doesn’t matter the size of the operation, you could have two milking cows.”

•  “Sarah King, who owns Godspeed Hollow Farm in Newberg, Oregon, has a pickup station that’s just 100 ft in length. She has an 11 acre property, and keeps things pretty simple. She has three milking cows. [Because] she has that milking stand, the state of Oregon said you are a CAFO, and because you are considered a CAFO, they require you to put in this infrastructure improvement which would cost her $100,000,”

•  “We’re requiring this massive infrastructure upgrade for you to continue to operate your facilities to protect our ground water from your two cows standing on a milking stand.”

•  Even if you have a gravel floor in a chicken coop, Oregon wants to come after you. “They have redefined CAFOs. This is going to impact nearly everybody.”

•  “This law is being enforced in the state of Oregon. It has already shut down some farms.”

•  There is an injunction on the definition of the law until it can be heard in court.
 
•  “You would think that they were going after raw milk, that always seems to be the case with a lot of these things, but this is actually going after anybody. Egg producers, anybody who has chickens that go up in a chicken house at night that may have a concrete floor.”

•  You have to go through a permitting process, and a lot of what they’re requiring is just simply too much for the small farmer. So that’s rule number one.”

•  “The second rule: In the state of Oregon, if you are using water, even groundwater, the only water that you can legally harvest and use without a permit is actually rainwater. They consider all water in the ground a resource of the public. Even if you have a private well on your property, that belongs to the people of Oregon.”

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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2024, 12:26:55 pm »
"Now if they come to your farm and you are not up to their code, they will SHUT YOU DOWN. ... It's going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix everything and farmers don't make a lot of money"

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Good news is the state of Oregon has backed down and says it’ll no longer pursue this policy for small farms. The bad news is, the policy is still on the books meaning it could still come up again. Hence the continued lawsuit. Oregon rescinds small dairy CAFO policy but lawsuit persists
10:20 AM · Mar 28, 2024

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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2024, 12:29:08 pm »
A Republican state representative says the Oregon government is unfriendly to agriculture, story here.

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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2024, 01:01:52 pm »
Here in N. Fl we have many small farms the produce all kinds of veggies, oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, Goats milk, beef, pork and chicken. these folks  only sell locally at famers markets or roadside stands  Other than some archaic health laws they seem to be thriving.  Funny how those liberal blue state lawmakers want everyone to starve and eat bugs.
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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2024, 03:16:55 am »
After the next Pres election, get surprised at how aggressive they (democrats) attack farms and gardens then!  Starvation and desolation, and the dupes without the slightest clue!
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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2024, 04:12:43 am »
•  “The second rule: In the state of Oregon, if you are using water, even groundwater, the only water that you can legally harvest and use without a permit is actually rainwater. They consider all water in the ground a resource of the public. Even if you have a private well on your property, that belongs to the people of Oregon.”

Rain barrels are illegal in Maryland.
It is illegal to connect your downspout to any sort of container in Maryland.
They claim that doing so is "stealing the people's water."
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Re: Oregon Declares War On Family Farms
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2024, 04:21:19 am »
They're trying to do that here too... They've been tying up water for years... Now the claim is that Native water rights supercede property owner's water rights...

Then, if that's won, all they have to do is make a deal with the tribes and we're all screwed.