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Local Small Farms Fear New Regulation

March 18, 2009 4:55 pm by: Mose Buchele

In the wake of the national peanut-salmonella scare, the U.S. Congress is toughening food and agriculture regulations.

Farmers’ problem with the bills is that they place the same regulations on small farmers as they would on large agribusiness.

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