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Show Uoll try again. Farm Duroaa uons Veto of recently enacted legislation protecting farm -ers and ranchers from nuisance nuis-ance suits comes as a serious ser-ious blow to Utah farmers and ranchers, according to Frank Nishiguchl, president of the Utah Farm Bureau. Governor Scott Matheson felt compelled to veto the legislation when a last min ute opinion by an assistant attorney general said the bill was unconstitutional. The governor has been supportive support-ive of the bill's intent. "Utah is losing her farmland farm-land to urbanization at an alarming rate. Manyfarm-ers Manyfarm-ers who have been established establish-ed for years are beingpres-sured beingpres-sured by complaints on odors etc., from homeowners who move next door to the farm. This bill was designed to protect a long established farmer from such complaints. com-plaints. The people of Utah must soon realize that if we lose our local food supply and livestock feed supply and have to depend on out of state producers, our state will be highly vulnerable to transportation and other labor la-bor strikes, energy shortages short-ages and other disruptions. You can be sure that Farm Bureau will again urge their legislators to write legislation legis-lation to protect farmers from such nuisance suits. And this time we will try to get the state's attorneys to get together on language they believe is legally acceptable. |