The chair of the Minnesota House Agriculture Committee is confident farmers will benefit from legislation passed during the 2019 Session. Jeanne Poppe (DFL) of Austin says the tax bill included a couple of big asks from commodity groups. “Section 179 full conformity is in the tax bill, and that’s important. We had talked about that (with farm groups) throughout the entire session, so I’m very pleased. I carried a bill that would do the conformity for Section 179, so we were able to get that.” The tax bill also raises the school bond referendum threshold from 40 percent to 70 percent.
