Minnesota deer farmers have one more chance to overturn CWD law
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Minnesota deer farmers are making a last ditch effort to overturn a 2023 aimed at curbing chronic wasting disease in deer population.
“We have half as many deer farms — we’re now at about 79 — than we did in 2020 and that’s because of the regulation,” said Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Tony Kennedy, who has covered this issue.
The 2023 law says that you can continue to farm deer with a registered herd and pass that farm down to an immediate family member for another generation.
“But after that, you have to shut down,” Kennedy said, “And a lot of farmers are just getting out thinking that is the ultimate end of the industry here.”
Deer farmers have already made two appeals, most recently being denied by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Their last chance would be at the Supreme Court.
Kennedy said some deer farmers are asking other agricultural associations for help raising funds to continue pursuing legal action.
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