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Senate committee reviews agriculture budget bill, adds funding for animal health, meat inspection and farm programs
Summary
The Minnesota Senate Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development reviewed the A3 delete‑everything amendment to Senate File 2458, detailing change items that shift funds for animal disease response, meat inspection, farm‑to‑school and other farm programs while trimming several grant lines to meet targets.
The Minnesota Senate Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development on an amendment to Senate File 2458 reviewed a detailed fiscal spreadsheet and discussed change items that would shift and add state funding for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), the Board of Animal Health and the Agriculture Utilization Research Institute (AURI).
The committee’s staff said the committee’s base general‑fund budget for MDA, the Board of Animal Health and AURI is $151,786,000 per biennium. Staff described a target savings of $313,000 for fiscal years 2026–27 and new “tails” spending of $2,928,000 for fiscal years 2028–29 under the DE amendment before the panel.
The amendment includes a mix of added spending and reductions. Major change items summarized by committee fiscal staff include: $100,000 each biennium for wolf depredation compensation and $100,000 for elk crop damage compensation (both tied to Senate File 469…
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