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From today's Star Tribune: Enough with all of this Minnesota farmer-bashing

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Noah Hultgren

Noah Hultgren is a family farmer in Raymond, Minn., and has an op-ed in today’s Star Tribune.

Noah Hultgren, a fourth-generation family farmer in Raymond, Minn., and First Vice President of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association, has an op-ed in today’s Star Tribune that covers what corn farmers are doing to address water quality concerns.

Hultgren also shares his perspective Gov. Dayton’s buffer strip proposal and tackles “what seems to be a coordinated effort to label farmers as polluters who are doing nothing to address water-quality concerns.”

Here is an excerpt from the piece:

We don’t need more shouting. We don’t need more labeling. We don’t need more political maneuvering and the curiously timed release of another damning “report.” What we need are results.

When it comes to water quality, we’re all in this together. Results will come from increased partnership, not a ratcheting up of rhetoric and finger-pointing.

Click here to read the entire Hultgren op-ed. We also encourage you to share the piece on your social media feeds. The farmer-perspective in the ag water quality/buffer strip issue hasn’t been covered much in the mainstream press recently.

A big thank you to Hultgren for giving a voice to Minnesota corn farmers in today’s Star Tribune.

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