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Committee discusses avian influenza funding, ag emergency account and depredation payments
Summary
Legislative staff and MDA testified about differing House and Senate approaches to the agriculture emergency account and appropriations for disease response and depredation compensation. Commissioner Tom Peterson emphasized biosecurity, the need for stable funds and delays in payments for elk and wolf damage.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture officials and conference committee staff told legislators that the House and Senate take different approaches to funding the state’s agriculture emergency response and to several damage compensation accounts.
Eric Olson, the Senate fiscal analyst, summarized transfer proposals: the Senate would transfer $1.5 million from the general fund to the agriculture emergency account in the current fiscal year (FY25) with immediate effect; the House would transfer $4 million in FY26 and allows up to $2 million of that transfer to be spent on…
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