The Minnesota House Agriculture Committee is using a little-known state law to delay the Dayton administration’s planned ban on fall fertilizer application to farm fields in some parts of Minnesota. Starbuck Republican Paul Anderson indicated to Governor Mark Dayton they would *not* do it, *if* he signed the agriculture policy bill. Anderson says, “We stated our position, we waited to find out what the governor would do, and he notified us yesterday (Mon) that he in fact had vetoed the bill, and so we’re gonna go ahead.”
Dayton calls the committee’s action to try to force his signature on the ag bill “unprecedented and offensive,” saying it interferes with the rights of Minnesotans — particularly those in rural areas — to clean and safe drinking water.