Some RBI's, Home Runs And A Couple Swing-Miss - Ballweg On Bills
Wisconsin Senator Joan Ballweg is summing up the work completed at the state house like the springtime sport we're watching - baseball. In a conversation with Pam Jahnke, Ballweg acknowledged there were some successes that crossed the plate like getting additional financial support for the states county fairs, but also missed opportunities due in part, to misunderstanding by Gov. Tony Evers. Ballweg says a bill designed to protect farms from encroaching local policies limiting farm size was an example. Ballweg says the bill was misconstrued by the governor to be about animal mistreatment, versus opportunity to expand. It's an item she intends to readdress next session.
Ballweg also noted that there were missed opportunities to support the Farm and Industry Short Course, now at UW-River Falls, but the program will keep moving forward. She also laments the lack of a supportive signature on revisions to the state's Farmland Preservation Program. Again, misunderstanding of purpose seemed to be part of the problem. Ballweg tells Pam Jahnke that the goal of the bill was to allow farms to enroll in the Farmland Preservation Program for actual farmed acres, not ground dedicated to something like a solar project.
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