When a Farmer Battles the Fed Could plowing mean million-dollar fines?

摘要

With the crank of a Case IH Quadtrac, John Duarte unwittingly poked leviathan and unleashed the highest levels of government regulation on his farmland. The annals of bureaucratic overreach are packed with stories of draconian intervention on U.S. farms—and then there is the Duarte account. The case should have been a standard off-the-radar, bull-rush government victory, but for one snag: Duarte punched back.