Article excerpts:

“A private landowner, CTM LCC, which owns just over 1,075 acres in northeast Iowa, sued USDA officials last April. With the help of the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Liberty Justice Legal, CTM LLC's case in the U.S. District Court of Northern Iowa argues that a 9-acre USDA wetland determination on a 71.85-acre tract amounts to an unconstitutional taking of land.

The 1985 farm bill created the swampbuster and sodbuster provisions that combine to create "conservation compliance" for farm bill programs. The swampbuster provision requires farmers to not drain identified wetlands for agricultural production. The sodbuster requires farmers to agree not to farm highly-erodible land…”

“…MOTION FILED TO INTERVENE

The Iowa Farmers Union, Dakota Rural Action, Food & Water Watch and Iowa Environmental Council, collectively calling themselves "Sustainable Agriculture Groups," filed a motion Oct. 2 in court asking a judge to grant them status in the case to intervene…

"…The loss of these long-standing conservation programs would cause significant environmental damage including increased flooding, degraded water quality, and widespread habitat loss," the groups stated in their motion.”

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