Clean water advocates are urging Governor Mark Dayton to hold firm on his pledge to veto any bill cancelling the state’s planned ban on fall fertilizer application to farm fields in some parts of the state. Steve Morse with Minnesota Environmental Partnership says, “There’s a lot of horse-trading that goes on at the end, and so we just want to be really clear that it’s really important that he veto this, and it be one of those things he draws a line in the sand and say, I’m gonna veto this regardless of where it is.”
Opponents say the proposed rule is over-reach by state agencies and not based on solid scientific evidence.