Source:Gary Baise, FARM FUTURES, 1/22/18


Editor's note: Cert granted by Supreme Court this afternoon.

“The essentially boundless authority granted the federal government by the Fifth Circuit [U.S. Court of Appeals] to control local land and water use under the guise of species protection conflicts with a plain reading of the Endangered Species Act.” I spoke last week to the Illinois Association of Drainage Ditches and noted the ESA is a basic threat to farmers with drainage ditches on or close to their property in any state particularly in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana because of a case presently pending in the United States Supreme Court.

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