Dusty Smith, a rancher in northwest Montana, said the Biden administration is creating red tape, and should focus instead on incentivizing sustainability.
Smith said the Biden administration should focus on incentives for farmers and ranchers, rather than creating more red tape.criticized the Biden administration’s climate policies, including a new water restriction, saying they create"more regulation," and could potentially lead to a decrease in agriculture production. definition, which broadly defines sources of water protected under the Clean Water Act.
Ranchers have warned Biden's new water rule causes "uncertainty" and unnecessary government regulation.Dusty Smith, a rancher in northwest Montana, said that was exactly what the new definition has done. "If you have a creek going through [your property] and you can't use it like you have in the past, it just devastates … our grass production, our hay production," Smith said."So the number of cows that can be run out of the acres goes down. And so then less beef will be produced in the end."
"I think farmers, ranchers are the number one environmentalists out there," he said, adding that agriculture producers don’t want to spend more on products like fertilizer than they have to.
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