There is bipartisan support in the Missouri House for more state funding for the Missouri Department of Agriculture. The House Budget Committee’s ranking Democrat supports Republican State Representative Don Rone’s call for additional funding. House Minority Whip Kip Kendrick of Columbia tells Missourinet News the department’s Division of Plant Industries is underfunded, “That office is way understaffed and that’s part of the reason, you know, farmers in southern Missouri who are dealing with the dicamba issue haven’t been made whole in a timely process, or, a timely fashion.”
Missouri lawmakers decided in 2010 to fund the plant division which operates Missouri’s pesticide control and produce safety programs, with pesticide applicator fees ONLY.
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