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Agriculture committee lays out 2026 priorities: regulation, relief and land protection
Summary
Sen. Russ Ingalls told the committee on Jan. 6 that the legislature will pursue clarity after a recent Supreme Court ruling, revisit farm relief funding, consider neonicotinoid and seed rules, review CAFO permitting and protect prime farmland from renewable-energy siting.
Sen. Russ Ingalls opened the agriculture-focused session on Jan. 6 by saying the committee would press for clarity on several issues affecting Vermont farmers, from regulatory responses to a recent Supreme Court decision to long-running concerns about farm relief and land protection.
"It's a $9.02 $9,200,000,000 industry," Ingalls said, emphasizing the economic scale underlying the committee's agenda and the need to handle contentious items with…
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