Minnesota Farm Bureau members want the state legislature to tweak the state’s buffer law. Associate Public Policy Director Cole Rupprecht says clarity is needed with the buffer maps to make them more accurate and workable. He says they’re trying to work with legislators and the Governor on that.

He says they want to see Representative Paul Torkelson’s House File 1994 measure approved because that would make the buffer law clear and understandable and would address landowner’s concerns.

Rupprecht says although the Governor has stated he’s against any compromise to implementation of the buffer law that there is some common ground they may be able to agree to.

Rupprecht says it’s important that the buffer maps clarify the differences in the types of land seen across the state from the West to the Southeast and how buffers would affect them.