One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy groups says the Waters of the United States ruling is a win for all farmers. The Venture Dairy Cooperative says the ruling puts a check on ‘unelected bureaucrats in Washington’ who ‘have run amok.’ The unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Obama-era regulation that gave the EPA broad power over any place that could hold water, including wetlands and some farm fields that regularly flooded.
Farm groups complained for years that those federal regulations not only went too far, but took power away from states to regulate farms how they saw fit. The Venture Co-op says farmers will now be free from ‘punishing’ federal regulations.
