SF 1016 Summary

• Appropriates $78,977,000 total ($46,594,000 in fiscal year 2012 and $32,383,000 in fiscal year 2013) for agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, and the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute

• Department of Agriculture receives $39,110,000 in 2012 and $24,899,000 in 2013, including funding for retail food handler inspections, anhydrous ammonia oversight, Minnesota grown promotion, livestock siting training, sustainable agriculture grants, and organic certification cost-sharing

• Appropriates $13,732,000 in 2012 for ethanol producer payments and $2,500,000 in 2012 for bioenergy grants through the NextGen Energy Board

• Establishes Board of Animal Health regulatory authority over livestock mortality disposal due to animal disease and nondisease causes, and creates certification program for regulatory compliance inspections of ammonia and anhydrous ammonia fertilizer storage and handling

• Modifies statutes to allow agricultural societies to exchange property, creates wholesale produce dealers account for fee collections, allows farmers to bury concrete and reinforcing bar on farmland with recording requirements, and permits counties to exchange real property without competitive bidding under specified conditions