[artichokegrower]

In a third California case, the Corps told a landowner last year that changing the use of a field from growing alfalfa to orchards would constitute a land-use change, allowing regulators to pursue an enforcement action if they thought plowing the field to plant trees involved a discharge to wetlands.

"The Corps regulator informed the landowner that despite an extensive farming history, orchards were never planted on the ranch so they are not the same kind of farming and might not be considered a normal farming activity," the report said.

Trump has promised to get rid of WOTUS when elected.

[ConservativeMind]

WOTUS = “Water Of The United States?”

[ExSES]

Government Agencies are just like any other organism..., they want to continue to grow and are allowed to do so by politicians who no longer even read the legislation they sign. Been in many meetings where "Justifying Our Existence" as an agency was primary! The fact that goals had been met was perceived as a threat to continued existence! This goes on in EVERY organization (which is governmental or "Non-Profit") ! After all, they are only spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (OPM)!

[Pontiac]

Emphasizing the need for congressional action, farm groups renewed their call for reform of Clean Water Act enforcement, following release of a report documenting how federal agencies overreach their authority to regulate farmland.

Reform!!!!

How about REPEAL of the unconstitutional piece of excrement.

The Clean Water Act gives unelected bureaucrats nearly unlimited power to force private citizens to do nothing with their private property or to spend ungodly sums of money to comply with worthless and pointless regulations.

This legislation needs to die and the bureaucrats need to be unemployed.

[upchuck]

Something else for Trump to add to his “Get Rid of It” list which must be nearing a mile in length.

[george76]

UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article artichokegrower. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

”… tried to expand their authority to regulate what crops farmers grow and how they grow them, based on the agencies' interpretation of the act."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Contrary to the misleading claim that constitutionally undefined federal agencies are trying to unconstitutionally expand their powers, patriots are reminded of the following. The states have actually never delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate either environmental issues or agricultural production.

In fact, a single statement by a previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices not only clarifies in general that powers that the states have not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds, but uses agricultural production as a specific example of powers not delegated.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So the referenced federal agencies are another example of lawless lawmakers unconstitutionally front-ending themselves with non-elected bureaucrats, allowing these bureaucrats to get away with essentially running the country using stolen state powers.

By allowing bureaucrats to get away with exercising stolen state powers, corrupt lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots into reelecting them imo.

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by environmental issues and agricultural production.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

[B4Ranch]

I am sooooo damn glad that I am out of the business of ranching I almost can’t express myself.

[MarMema]

Northern Michigan relies on farming, tourism, and logging to stay afloat and barely does at that.

Would love to see the farmers here get some relief. I recall we had to sign some documents indicating that the land across the road from us used to be a farm many years ago, when we purchased our home in 2015.