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Agriculture committee amends and advances Department of Agriculture budget bill, adopts cottage-food, milk-licensing and fee provisions
Summary
The Senate committee advanced Senate File 2458 after receiving testimony from the Department of Agriculture and adopting multiple amendments including changes to food licensing, cottage-food rules and milk-purchasing clarifications.
The Minnesota Senate Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development on Monday considered Senate File 2458, a budget-establishment bill for the Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health and the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI). After testimony from agency leaders and multiple amendment votes, the committee referred the amended bill to the Finance Committee and authorized staff to make technical edits.
Tom Peterson, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, described the bill as including several of the governor's recommended items such as operating adjustments, funding for elk and wolf depredation compensation, meat-inspection work at MDA, farm safety and wellness programs, and other program investments. "The inclusion of these programs help us do our day to day operations at the department better," Peterson said on the record.
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