Farmers worry about collisions between farm vehicles and cyclists and joggers, and they anticipate trail users will object to chemical sprays and farming practices.
Maui County is home to just 160,000 residents, but the moratorium could have effects across the nation because multinational seed producers Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical research and develop new varieties there.
Crops were damaged across much of southern and eastern Idaho when a series of ill-timed storms caused grain to sprout before it could be harvested and some crops to mold in the fields.
Democratic candidate Chuck Hassebrook said he would work to lower property taxes, but he’d prefer that most of the benefits go to owner-occupied farms and landowners who actually live in Nebraska.
Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod filed the lawsuit against the late blogger Andrew Breitbart, who in 2010 posted an edited video of Sherrod, who is black, supposedly making racist remarks.
