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Doug LaMalfa: “They might think it is OK this day, this week, and then the next time you go to do it on a different field, changing a…”

On the recordJune 23, 2014
They might think it is OK this day, this week, and then the next time you go to do it on a different field, changing a crop, plowing or whatever, you might have a different bureaucrat that shows up and says, 'You cannot do that, and we are going to haul you into court.'
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Doug LaMalfa
Republican · California

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LaMalfa highlights the unpredictability of federal oversight affecting farmers.

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