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May 10, 2021 | 4:30 PM
A third-generation South Dakota farmer filed a lawsuit last week (May 6, 2021) against the US Department of Agriculture saying the federal agency is unlawfully preventing him from farming one of his fields.
Tony Francois, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, says in 2011, a division of the Department of Agriculture ruled a small seasonal mud puddle on Arlen Foster’s farm is protected by federal law as a wetland. He says even though the federal government has no authority to regulate such puddles, it’s threatening to take away Foster’s ability to participate in federal programs to achieve the outcome that it wants.
2 weeks ago in Agriculture Photo: WNAX
Miner County South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster and his wife Cindy have filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Sioux Falls against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tony Francois of the Pacific Legal Foundation is representing the Foster’s in the case. Francois says they’re asking the NRCS to reconsider a wetlands determination that basically made a mud puddle a federal wetland and is preventing the Foster’s from farming that area.
He says the original designation was made under Swamp buster regulations which keeps producers from farming areas deemed wetlands and keeps them from getting federal farm payments or even crop insurance.