The Minnesota House Agriculture Committee, using a little-known state law, is threatening to delay the Dayton administration’s planned ban on fall fertilizer application to farm fields in some parts of Minnesota. Republicans indicate they won’t carry out the threat if Dayton signs an agriculture policy bill. Starbuck Republican Paul Anderson told committee members Sunday night, “I tell you I will not submit this resolution until we see what happens the next few days.”
Saint Paul Democrat Tim Mahoney warns of legal action if Republicans make good on their threat. Mahoney says, “The Supreme Court can weigh in to see how much we’re gonna neuter a governor or not neuter an executive branch, ’cause that’s exactly what this resolution does.”