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BOWMAN: Section 6.
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<br />GIFFIN: Yeah, of the background report?
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<br />BOWMAN: Of the, yeah.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay, what page?
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<br />BOWMAN: Six.
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<br />GIFFIN: Page 6, Section 6. Yes?
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<br />BOWMAN: Right? So that whole section is taken out. Am I on the right -?
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Under this proposal, yes, it is.
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<br />BOWMAN: Okay. So, my comment was, “so there is no money amount from ag,” but I don’t
<br />know why I made the comment.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: There is – hang on, I’m looking – on Page 6, at the top of Page 6, there is a
<br />requirement that major operations have a minimum of $10,000 in verifiable gross sales.
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<br />BOWMAN: From, from, exclusive of any agricultural tourism -.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Yeah.
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<br />BOWMAN: Okay, so that’s ag itself. So there is no, anything about how much they can make
<br />from agricultural tourism as long as they have the $10,000 verifiable from ag.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: This had more to do with the fact that I didn’t think it was realistic that I was
<br />going to be examining people’s books in terms of, you know, having them come in, provide their
<br />gross revenues, provide, you know -. I looked at how realistic it was. I think you can have a
<br />threshold that says, hey, you have to show me that you have a certain amount of sales; but to require
<br />that I’m going to examine their book and determine what their revenues are, look at their returns
<br />and stuff, I just thought I’m not going to go -. I don’t do it for anybody and I don’t do this for any
<br />other agricultural activity; I don’t review anybody’s ag activity for how much income they make,
<br />you know. So I just thought that this was something that I’m not going to do, and I thought that it
<br />would be very tough to require it. So I thought that the minimum for the major was, you know,
<br />okay, but this other stuff, I just felt like, the reality that, cause this implies that I’m going to review
<br />your books to see whether you comply with this, and I just had a problem with that. I don’t have a
<br />problem with saying that they have to have legitimate agricultural activity, but -.
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<br />BOWMAN: So my question is it’s $10,000 for major, which brings in, I don’t know, 30,000
<br />people, 15,000 to 30,000 a year -. Did any of the ag tourism have any comment on this?
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: I didn’t get, I think they wanted me to retain some, you know, connection to
<br />actual agriculture. So I wouldn’t be adverse to just getting rid of the word “major,” and just say
<br />“agricultural tourism operations must have a minimum of $10,000 in verifiable gross sales …,” and
<br />then that would include both major and minor.
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