The radical left-wing anti-farm green agenda isn’t just trying to destroy agriculture in foreign locales like The Netherlands, it’s also happening in Oregon.
“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.” (By “market gardens” he means small farms that only supply produce locally.)
“They’re using satellite technology to find their victims and then send them these letters, and say you can’t operate, and they’re doing it in the name of water conservation.”
“Oregon’s government and dairy industry [have joined] forces against small farmers.”
“There are two different laws that they’re using.”
“They’ve redefined what a CAFO is.” CAFO stands for “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation.” According to Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge, a CAFO is where “over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year. An animal unit is the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of “live” animal weight.[1] A thousand animal units equates to 700 dairy cows, 1,000 meat cows, 2,500 pigs weighing more than 55 pounds (25 kg), 10,000 pigs weighing under 55 pounds, 10,000 sheep, 55,000 turkeys, 125,000 chickens, or 82,000 egg laying hens or pullets.”
Oregon seems to have redefined that. “This applies to people who have chicken houses, who have goat farms, basically anybody who has a barn or a facility that has a gravel or concrete floor.”
“What’s happening in Oregon, and why the small dairies have filed a lawsuit against the state…it doesn’t matter the size of the operation, you could have two milking cows.”
“Sarah King, who owns Godspeed Hollow Farm in Newberg, Oregon, has a pickup station that’s just 100 ft in length. She has an 11 acre property, and keeps things pretty simple. She has three milking cows. [Because] she has that milking stand, the state of Oregon said you are a CAFO, and because you are considered a CAFO, they require you to put in this infrastructure improvement which would cost her $100,000,”
“We’re requiring this massive infrastructure upgrade for you to continue to operate your facilities to protect our ground water from your two cows standing on a milking stand.”
Even if you have a gravel floor in a chicken coop, Oregon wants to come after you. “They have redefined CAFOs. This is going to impact nearly everybody.”
“This law is being enforced in the state of Oregon. It has already shut down some farms.”
There is an injunction on the definition of the law until it can be heard in court.
“You would think that they were going after raw milk, that always seems to be the case with a lot of these things, but this is actually going after anybody. Egg producers, anybody who has chickens that go up in a chicken house at night that may have a concrete floor.”
You have to go through a permitting process, and a lot of what they’re requiring is just simply too much for the small farmer. So that’s rule number one.”
“The second rule: In the state of Oregon, if you are using water, even groundwater, the only water that you can legally harvest and use without a permit is actually rainwater. They consider all water in the ground a resource of the public. Even if you have a private well on your property, that belongs to the people of Oregon.”
“This is a rule that went into place back in 2021, and then it has slowly rolled out to the point where market gardeners with a half acre of land are now receiving cease and desist orders saying you can’t water your gardens. Figure out another way to do it.”
The law says you can use up to 5,000 gallons a day, but market gardeners are proably only using 1,000 gallons a day. “You would think that they’re saying you’re a commercial business, because if you are growing food for yourself [But] There’s a lady has been growing food and selling it to neighbors. It’s been her primary income source and they shut her down.”
“Christina Del Campo um has just over a half acre. She grows blueberries, local vegetables, things like that. Her farm is called Oak Song Farm near Eugene. She’s operated there for 7 years and she recently received received a letter from the regional office of the Oregon Water Resources Department. It was a notification that the farm couldn’t irrigate its commercial crops without a water right.”
“They shut her down because, according to the Oregon Water Resources Department, the exemption for commercial use does not include irrigation of land.”
“Basically, the state of Oregon is coming in now and they’re they’re putting things on people’s wells to measure the amount of water. It’s very invasive.”
“Supposedly Oregon had these rules in place since 1909. They just keep changing them.”
“They’ve sent out letters not just to this one farmer, but multiple small farms, market garden farms, saying you can’t water your crops anymore.”
“This is actually a war on small farms.”
“We’ve seen this happening over and over and over again, where we’re seeing them utilize water rights [protection] to shut down farms across our country.”
“If you look at the number of farms that we’ve lost since 2000, it’s staggering. We’ve gone from 2,100,000 farms in 2000 down to 1,850,000 farms at the end of last year.”
“You’ve seen a lot of these cases where they’ve gone in and they’ve just shut off farms to water rights to an entire valley at a time.”
“We’re seeing them take control over people’s wells putting meters on people’s wells, shutting down small farms.”
“Everybody should have the right to farm fresh food. Oregon is basically taking that right away from every Oregon citizen by taking away the rights of the small farmers to operate their businesses in the name of some laws that were originally put in place to protect groundwater from much larger scale operations.”
If there isn’t some sort of sinister agenda behind these new regulatory pushes, destroying small farms certainly gives a pretty good impression of a sinister agenda. And no points for guessing which political party enjoys uncontested control of Oregon. Remember when Democrats claimed to be looking out for family farms? Doesn’t seem to be the case any more. Someone should ask Willie Nelson about all this…
Texas has a Right to Farm statute that should (theoretically) prevent such abuses here.
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7 Responses to “Oregon Declares War On Family Farms”
family farms should declare war on Oregon. Enough beating around the bush yes? All urban contracts are canceled. I’ll even bet other states’ family farmers would join. Let Portland import food from fucking Formosa. Better yet they could go Port Au Prince and cannibalize each other. The vegans wouldn’t last the night.
Oregon is currently demonstrating what happens when you let the HOA Karens take over a state government.
It won’t end well. The townies in Oregon don’t realize the thinness of the ice they’re treading on: After having had the state and Federal authorities gut the timber industry and the economic basis for most of rural Oregon due to that stupid owl that they’re now preparing an owl genocide to try and keep viable, the credibility for a lot of this crap is near-zero. And, news-flash for ya? The rural types ain’t what I’d term amenable to more of the same.
Not sure how it’s gonna work out, but we’re watching the opening stages of “pushed too far” here.
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Gozer said to “choose the form of the destructor”. Good thing nobody in the ’80s thought of a “bureaucrat”. No humor in those guys.
family farms should declare war on Oregon. Enough beating around the bush yes? All urban contracts are canceled. I’ll even bet other states’ family farmers would join. Let Portland import food from fucking Formosa. Better yet they could go Port Au Prince and cannibalize each other. The vegans wouldn’t last the night.
I’m stealing your “Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge” line.
“‘Everybody should have the right to farm fresh food.’”
Private farms are an impediment to the collectivization of agriculture, Comrade. Expropriate the Kulak!
Oregon is currently demonstrating what happens when you let the HOA Karens take over a state government.
It won’t end well. The townies in Oregon don’t realize the thinness of the ice they’re treading on: After having had the state and Federal authorities gut the timber industry and the economic basis for most of rural Oregon due to that stupid owl that they’re now preparing an owl genocide to try and keep viable, the credibility for a lot of this crap is near-zero. And, news-flash for ya? The rural types ain’t what I’d term amenable to more of the same.
Not sure how it’s gonna work out, but we’re watching the opening stages of “pushed too far” here.
Want an explanation for all of this? Read this post over at X:
https://twitter.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1774456787699191962
Mr. Eriksen makes way too much sense, with all of this.
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