2005 Minnesota Statutes - 84.963 — Prairie plant seed production areas.

     84.963 Prairie plant seed production areas. 


    The commissioner of natural resources shall study the 
 feasibility of establishing private or public prairie plant seed 
 production areas within prairie land locations.  If prairie 
 plant seed production is feasible, the commissioner may aid the 
 establishment of production areas.  The commissioner may enter 
 cost-share or sharecrop agreements with landowners having 
 easements for conservation purposes of ten or more years on 
 their land to commercially produce prairie plant seed of 
 Minnesota origin.  The commissioner may only aid prairie plant 
 seed production areas on agricultural land used to produce crops 
 before December 23, 1985, and cropped three out of five years 
 between 1981 and 1985. 


    HIST: 1987 c 404 s 99