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to the runoff in this very environmentally sen- sitive region, which includes Maryland due to the Chesapeake Bay, a national estuary, but this plan, if implemented would put an increased burden and expenses on those parties aff ected in a way that no other parties are aff ected any- where else in the United States. As this is a requirement passed down by the Federal De- partment of the Environment for compliance, perhaps, the extra expenses should be funded by Federal money to assure protection of the estuary. Boarding farms typically charge only $20 a day and for this, they must feed the horses (about $5 a horse), pay the workmen (another $5), fi x the fencing and physical property (an- other $5)... they are lucky to earn anything on the boarding side of their business at $5 per horse a day. With this increased demand on top of the others, the margin is shrinking and soon there will be no parties that will want to do this type of work due to the declining ability to make a living. In a way, this will also make the farm properties less valuable and viable and with the restrictions of fencing streams, set back, the inability to use properties with steep grades, this becomes a “taking” of property with no money exchanged. T is is a diffi cult place to be as a property owner and business manager. I propose that a bill be passed to compensate
the property owners for whatever Federal re- quirements are given which amounts to extra costs due to these new regulations and the “tak- ing” of properties due to zoning issues and other environmental issues. Maryland should be on parity with other states and county land own- ers should be compen- sated for their losses. If the government came in and “took” the basement of a suburban home and used it without compen- sation, the entire country would be at arms. Why is it OK to constantly take from those that live in the country, grow the food and animals and provide for recreational sports we all enjoy?
Farming, a detrimental business?
by Chrissy Keys Heard, farm owner Laytonsville (Montgomery County) and Mississippi T e National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has recently ranked Mary- land as one of the top fi ve states where owning a business is detrimental to success and profi t- ability. T e Maryland Department of Agricul- ture is yet another example for why this is so. Tax and spend policies, environmental hysteria and bureaucrats who know nothing about run-
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ning or owning a business (or farming) rule the day. Spreading manure and applying lime when called for should be encouraged to maintain pastures…not the opposite!
Just look at all the salt that is used and wasted
“Maryland, and Montgomery County in particular, is its own worse enemy... annexing 90,000 acres for agriculture just to strangle it with more and more needless regulations.”
- Chrissy Keys Heard, farm owner (Laytonsville, Montgomery County)
during the winter months on our roads and parking lots in addi- tion to all the tons of fertilizers applied to the ever-increasing golf courses and commercial properties in the metro area…surely that has a larger hazardous foot- print than horses pas-
tured near streams! Because of the volume of horses that I have kept at my facility, we HAD to ship out most of the manure. But, knowing that I could spread manure throughout the year when the ground was frozen and/or dry helped to maintain costs and gave my pocketbook a break while nourishing the pastures. Prohibit- ing this practice would make a horse business even less profi table than it already is. Maryland, and Montgomery County in particular, is its own worse enemy…annexing 90,000 acres for agriculture just to strangle it with more and more needless regulations. When I tell the farmers down here in Missis- sippi what it’s like, they think I’m kidding.
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