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Committee lays over bill to add crude soybean oil to special-product permit; labor and rail groups raise safety and competition concerns
Summary
Representative Schwartz’s bill to add crude soybean oil to Minnesota’s specialty farm-product permit statute was laid over after proponents said it would reduce truck trips and opponents — Teamsters and regional railroads — raised safety and competitive concerns.
Representative Rod Schwartz asked the committee to add crude soybean oil to Minnesota Statute 169.865’s list of qualifying products under the specialty farm product permit statute; the panel laid House File 2665 over after competing testimony from agriculture processors, labor and rail interests.
Jake Hamlin, director of state government affairs for CHS, said CHS invested in expanded soybean-processing capacity and that adding crude soybean oil to the statute would let companies move product “more efficiently with fewer…
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