Oregon had essentially shut down all small farm... under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection.
“The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms and they’re using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can’t operate,” the rancher in the video below explains. - OregonNews
Oregon is using two laws to shut these small farms en masse... the CAFO law and the water conservation law.
CAFO is defined as “The State of Oregon defines CAFOs as the concentrated feeding or holding of animals or poultry, including but not limited to horse, cattle, sheep, or swine feeding areas, dairy confinement areas, and poultry and egg production facilities where the surface has been prepared with concrete, rock or fibrous material to support animals in wet weather.” Basically, a few-acre homestead with pasture and, say, two milking cows and some chickens qualifies as a CAFO if it has any area on the property where rock or gravel is used as a pathway to get to a small barn or coop.
The water conservation law states that farmers can only use rain water that are collected... any water from rivers, streams or lakes and underground water from wells on their own private land is public resource and can't be used to irrigate crops or hydrate their live stocks without a permit from the state.
The Oregon gov't colluded with large-scale dairy industry and farmers to rid themselves of small family farms and competitions.. . it's all about control - not saving people.
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