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Proposed Clean Water Act Rule Could Affect Entire Farm

Todd Neeley
By  Todd Neeley , DTN Staff Reporter
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In the prairie pothole region near Willow Lake, S.D., farmers Matt and Kristin Vandersnick commonly find wet, marshy areas where cattails thrive interspersed among their fields of corn and soybeans. They are looking for clarification as to whether these areas would be waters of the U.S. under the proposed Clean Water Act rule. (DTN photo by Todd Neeley)
In the prairie pothole region near Willow Lake, S.D., farmers Matt and Kristin Vandersnick commonly find wet, marshy areas where cattails thrive interspersed among their fields of corn and soybeans. They are looking for clarification as to whether these areas would be waters of the U.S. under the proposed Clean Water Act rule. (DTN photo by Todd Neeley)
The proposed Clean Water Act rule has raised more questions than answers among farmers in the prairie pothole region of South Dakota, where producers commonly see water accumulating on their land in wet years and subsiding in dry years.

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Todd Neeley

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