WV Farm Bureau Magazine January 2012 | Page 5

WVFB 2012 legislative priorities and the limited number * Promote reasonable identified by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and responsible * Promote any stream nominated legislation regulating strategies/activities for Tier 3 status must oil and gas exploration to maintain and follow procedure – that will protect private grow West Virginia’s individual notification of property/surface agricultural economy landowner(s), current owners’ rights and while confronting the scientific data, appeal the environment, challenges posed by process via EQB, etc.] while encouraging the an ever aggressive development of our DEP & EPA. Rural Values/Public * Maintain adequate resources. * Promote legislation Issues funding for the to absolve the predator control * Agricultural landowner from any civil representation on the program. * Promote legislation liability for injuries that DEP Advisory Council. may occur to a person that establishes a or property on the county response Taxes/Tax Reform landowner’s property mechanism/livestock * Maintain current or surrounding property farm use valuation committee consisting of recognized farmers caused while hunting. status for real property * Promote trespasser in production agriculture, within each county to responsibility legislation including the $ 1,000 address complaints to strengthen and regarding inhumane production standard, protect longstanding livestock treatment. while eliminating nonliability rules. * Promote legislation farmer access to this tax * Ensure that to establish/define classification. antidegradation veterinary technician * Support tax reform implementation responsibilities. measures that have * Promote legislation procedures follow the a positive effect on interpretative rule set to address loose agriculture and oppose forth by DEP. [With the those measures that animal standards. exception of streams in have a negative effect. state and national parks Agriculture and Agricultural Funding Property Rights West Virginia Farm Bureau News 5