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Vermont farmer urges House agriculture committee to reject proposed changes to right‑to‑farm law over pollution fears
Summary
A Randolph Center farmer told the House agriculture committee she opposes proposed changes to Vermont's right‑to‑farm law (S.45), saying the revisions would leave nearby farms and families powerless when runoff, pesticide drift and odors harm water, pasture and businesses.
Katie Steer, owner of Wild Earth Farm in Randolph Center, told the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry that she wants lawmakers to “vote down the proposed changes to Vermont's right to farm laws.”
Steer said she and her husband raise grass‑fed beef and lamb on about 100 acres and operate two Airbnbs to help pay mortgage and taxes. She described close, recurring impacts from a nearby industrial dairy and an uphill genetically modified cornfield with tile drains that she said causes runoff into a spring and pasture on her property. “We cussed in the water coming from the spring, and it is contaminated with herbicides due to runoff from this cornfield,” she…
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