Video & Transcript Research : 'grazing'
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WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Nearly all these reservoirs have grazing permits around them.
- It would guarantee us we'd have grazing.
- upon grazing against these reservoirs. upon grazing against these reservoirs.
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and <02:07:43.360>recreation uh grazing uh recreation and recreation uh grazing uh recreation - would guarantee us we'd have grazing it. would guarantee us we'd have grazing it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Taxes Bill - 05/23/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Because the grazing provisions are are clearly agricultural uh concerns.
- Because the grazing provisions are are clearly agricultural uh, concerns.
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clearly grazing provisions are are clearly grazing provisions are are clearly agricultural - It's good for the land because grazing is good for the land in and of itself.
- So these grazing provisions seem very straightforward to me as well.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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animals, solar facility, grazing animals, solar facility, grazing animals, - Uh this can include growing crops, raising<01:36:29.040>
and <01:36:29.280>grazing <01:36 - :29.760>
livestock, <01:36:30.560>or raising and grazing livestock, or raising and grazing - The solar habitat bill has grown to be great for businesses and agriculture as we now use sheep grazing
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for <01:41:45.920>efficient <01:41:46.400>site use sheep grazing
Keywords:
water appropriation, data centers, environmental review, energy conservation, permit application, carbon-free energy, geothermal energy, renewable energy, Macalester College, appropriation, sustainability, solar energy, pollinator programs, license plates, agrivoltaics, environmental sustainability, 1183, house
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Natural Resource Funding Committee, January 12, 2026
Select Natural Resource Funding Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- My counterpart in Nevada has said that they have had tremendous success by grazing cheatgrass in the
- But they've had tremendous success by grazing.
- And so I think with a combination of grazing, chemical usage, but it's going to have to be landscapewide
- And so I tremendous success by grazing.
- , think with a combination of grazing, think with a combination of grazing, chemical<00:56:08.000
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Apr 11th, 2025 at 12:30 pm
North Dakota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think there's anything in current law that would restrict someone who's grazing cattle or has
- But to say the neighbor's rights are restricted because of the operation of the feedlot or simply grazing
- residual left in the field, and many of those cornfields are right adjacent to where a horse might be grazing
- , where cattle might be grazing.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then received a gubernatorial message listing numerous bills signed by the governor. The chamber also handled conference committee business, including appointing conferees for House Bills 1003 and 1169 after refusing to concur with Senate amendments, and adopting a conference committee report on House Bill 1053, which repealed a Century Code section related to the length of the state highway system.
A major portion of the meeting focused on Senate Bill 2137, which would allow supplemental feed for hunting and include an expiration date. The House divided the proposed amendments into two parts. Division A, dealing with baiting limits and setbacks near livestock facilities, drew extensive debate over private property rights, enforceability, livestock protection, and hunting access, and failed 14-76. Division B, requiring chronic wasting disease surveillance and a report to Legislative Management, also drew debate over whether the reporting requirement was necessary or too late to be useful; it failed 44-46. With both divisions defeated, the House then passed the underlying bill 56-34.
The House also laid over Senate Bills 2340, 2326, and 2289. Later, it defeated Senate Bill 2325, which would have created a process for non-federal easements on wetland areas, by a vote of 4-84. It passed Senate Bill 2210, directing a legislative management study on watershed-based water management, 85-3; Senate Bill 2387, establishing rights for sexual violence survivors, 89-0; and Senate Bill 269, allowing state agencies to satisfy legal notice requirements by posting on their websites if newspaper publication is missed, 72-17. The House then excused absent members and adjourned until Monday, April 14, 2025.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- dedicated funding mechanism, kind of a first-in-the-country license plate featuring a solar facility, grazing
- This can include growing crops, raising and grazing livestock, or cultivating pollinator habitats underneath
- The solar habitat bill has grown to be great for businesses and agriculture as we now use sheep grazing
- I've heard of cattle grazing amongst solar panels on higher posts, which I think is necessary.
Keywords:
water appropriation, data centers, environmental review, energy conservation, permit application, carbon-free energy, geothermal energy, renewable energy, Macalester College, appropriation, sustainability, solar energy, pollinator programs, license plates, agrivoltaics, environmental sustainability
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Gun Violence Prevention Working Group - 09/15/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Bullets grazed the back of his head.
- A STORY IT WAS GRAZED BY A BULLET IN THE FOREHEAD AND ANOTHER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER NECK.
- At Annunciation, I cared for a 12-year-old girl who had what looked like a very small graze, with the
- From a handgun, that wound would likely have only been a grazing wound, but from a high-powered rifle
- At Annunciation, I cared for a 12-year-old girl who had what looked like a very small graze, with the
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Fri Jan 31, 2025 @ 10:00 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- We also have the ability within our department to continue the offering of grazing opportunities for
- the ranchers by issuing special use permits to them to continue grazing after their permit is completed
- But what we have indicated is our proposal is to keep the rancher on through these grazing permits to
- We also have the ability within our department to continue the offering of grazing opportunities for
- But what we have indicated is our proposal is to keep the rancher on through these grazing permits to
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine certain pending nominations. Apr 30th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- critical energy development takes place alongside other important uses of recreation, conservation, grazing
- I express deep concerns with this rule, especially as it pertains to the impacts on livestock grazing
- And cattle and sheep grazing on public lands provides benefits by mitigating the risk of wildfire, suppressing
- coal, oil, gas, renewable energy development. while also supporting conservation, recreation, and grazing
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee - Morning Session Dec 17th, 2025
A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- that water, whether it's planting grass, whether it's fencing out cattle, whether it's rotational grazing
- that water, whether it's planting grass, whether it's fencing out cattle, whether it's rotational grazing
- Head of 700-pound steers that aren't able to graze in Oklahoma a year, and those wouldn't say all be
- there, but that's economic benefit that could be coming into the state where we could do outside grazing
- raised there but that's economic benefit that could be coming into the state where we could do outside grazing
Summary:
The meeting began with a budget presentation from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Secretary Blaine Arthur and Deputy Commissioner Jan Lee described the agency’s divisions and recent efforts to improve efficiency, including expanded online licensing, electronic veterinary inspection certificates, and a new laboratory information system. They highlighted youth and workforce programs, local food initiatives for schools, market development efforts, and ongoing animal health concerns such as avian influenza, equine herpesvirus, and the threat of New World screwworm. They also discussed staffing, turnover, and uncertainty around federal cooperative agreement funding, while noting they were not requesting new or additional appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year.
Members asked about meat inspection staffing, the use of one-time forestry firefighting funds, biosecurity and national security coordination, and agency staffing levels. The department said meat inspection was currently in good shape but dependent on federal funding stability, and explained that prior firefighting dollars had been used for equipment purchases. They also said they work with state and federal partners, including DHS and FBI, on threat preparedness and have reduced turnover by adjusting salaries and maintaining staffing at or below prior levels.
The Oklahoma Conservation Commission then presented its budget and program overview. Staff described the agency’s long history and current work in water quality, flood control, soil health, unpaved roads, wetlands, and woody species control, especially eastern red cedar removal. They emphasized data-driven, voluntary conservation practices, citing stream cleanups, flood-control dam benefits, pond cleanouts during drought, and the Cherry-Peach watershed project as examples of programs that improve water resources and reduce wildfire risk. The agency said its workload has grown significantly and requested funding for critical dam repairs, local conservation district staffing, continued unpaved roads work, and expansion of woody species control statewide.
Members asked about county matching for road and dam projects, who to contact about flooding roads, sediment removal from pond cleanouts, and the effectiveness of county training programs. Commission staff explained that county in-kind work can count as match, local conservation districts are the first point of contact, and the road training has produced measurable savings and better maintenance practices. They also clarified that “high hazard” dams are those where failure could threaten people or infrastructure downstream, not necessarily dams that are structurally failing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on HF3426 5/13/26
Transcript Highlights:
- The Senate had been carrying one more preparation for rotational grazing pilot program.
- Lines 139 through 142 show an additional piece of the rotational grazing pilot program. 17.9 million.
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of <00:05:41.919>the <00:05:42.080>rotational <00:05:42.640>grazing - <00:05:43.000>
pilot The Senate had been carrying a piece of the rotational grazing pilot
Summary:
The Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund Conference Committee met on May 13, 2026, to finalize House File 3426. After roll call established a quorum, staff walked members through the conference agreement and spreadsheet, noting that most appropriations were unchanged from the House and Senate positions. The report kept the LCCMR recommendations in resiliency, water, fish and wildlife, energy, and most land and education/outdoor recreation items, while removing the “cultivating conservation leaders through education and wilderness experiences” project and a Senate rotational grazing pilot provision. The committee also noted the overall appropriation total and carryforwards/extensions, and that the community grants program appropriation remained in the bill.
Members then reviewed the policy language in the DE amendment. The agreement retained House provisions setting guardrails for the community grants program, including requirements for emerging issues account votes, maximum grant amounts, staff training, monitoring visits, pre-award risk assessments, surety bond or fiscal-agent approval for advance payments, and quarterly progress reports, while also adopting Senate language repealing a DNR acquisition-approval requirement. Senators McEwen and Her offered contrasting comments about the removal of the Boundary Waters-related project, with McEwen criticizing the decision as politicized and Her emphasizing stewardship and the importance of exposing young people to the Boundary Waters. Representatives Heintzeman and Fischer defended the need for accountability and said the issue had been addressed in a bipartisan way.
The committee reported receiving a letter from the DNR supporting the language and thanking the conferees and staff. Chair Her moved adoption of the HF 3426 DE amendment and the spreadsheet dated 5/13/26 at 11:38 a.m., authorized staff to prepare the conference committee report and make technical and conforming changes, and the motion passed 7-0. The meeting ended with thanks to staff, LCCMR participants, and Speaker Melissa Hortman, followed by adjournment and instructions for members to watch for and sign the conference committee report electronically that night.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 19th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- One major grazing lease loss, one bad season, and it all comes crashing down.
- After I found out I was pregnant with our son, we lost our largest grazing lease in an instant. of our
- What were you grazing on that land, row crop or...?
Keywords:
agriculture, finance, young farmers, financial assistance, pest control, honey production, beekeeping, food safety, local regulation, bovine producers, dairy farms, permits, bovine tuberculosis, public health, wildlife management, disease prevention, alert system, Texas A&M, white-tailed deer, public safety
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WTL Public Hearing 03-17-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We lost that production, and so we had to go on a grazing permit.
- They like to give you an extension and up there 10 years and go on grazing.
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went <00:20:25.559>on <00:20:25.720>a <00:20:25.960>grazing - <00:20:26.360>
permit we had to uh we went on a grazing permit we had to uh we went on a grazing - I it won't work because we tried grazing I it won't work because we tried it<00:20:51.360>
we
Summary:
The Committee on Water and Land heard SR 18, which asks DLNR to transfer active agricultural land leases to the Department of Agriculture to support agriculture. DLNR, through Don Chang, opposed the resolution, saying the department has already been transferring parcels by mutual agreement and should not be required to transfer lands it does not consent to. Ranchers and agricultural advocates strongly supported the measure, arguing that the lands are active production areas, that partial transfers would undermine ranching operations, and that water infrastructure built by ranchers must be protected. Testimony from the Hawaii Farm Bureau and others emphasized the importance of preserving agricultural land for food production, wildfire management, and long-term ranch viability. Committee members pressed both sides on acreage, specific parcels, and whether negotiations were still ongoing, with DLNR later clarifying that some parcels remain under negotiation and that some proposed transfers have been narrowed or adjusted.
Several specific ranches and parcels were discussed, including Batello, Diamond B, Delo, Nobriga, and Kapala Ranch. Witnesses described the operational importance of water systems, grazing areas, and access routes, and said that losing productive acreage would threaten business viability. Some members expressed concern that the proposal appeared to transfer productive land while leaving less useful land with ranchers, and urged the department to continue transparent negotiations and consider the practical impact on agriculture and conservation. A DLNR representative said some transfers were tied to other needs, such as transportation mitigation, and not to a broader effort to take more land. The Department of Agriculture later stated it supports the intent of the measure, but suggested its concerns would likely be addressed if the resolution were narrowed to the specific parcels at issue.
The chair also announced that the related House bill on the same subject remains alive and will be heard by Water and Land on Thursday. After concluding SR 18, the committee moved on to SCR 51 and SR 33, which seek a working group to evaluate establishing and administratively placing an Office of Resilience and Recovery. The Office of Planning and Sustainable Development indicated support for the concept, noting the office’s value in Maui wildfire recovery efforts.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, historically, that's been mitigated through livestock grazing where if you can graze it down really
- We don't, we no longer graze down to the nub. um, we're a little lighter on the land, but that means
- Fuel when you don't graze down to the nubs, so the practices have changed.
- Community by bringing that tall grass down through grazing, through shredding, through some practice
- is 95% privately held, and those individuals don't always want to shred, they don't want to always graze
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes SF2, the omnibus energy bill 6/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Schultz's constituent has a thriving business of renting out 2,500 sheep every year to go graze
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go renting out 2500 sheep every year to go renting out 2500 sheep every year to go graze - graze the grass under the solar panels. graze the grass under the solar panels.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- On line 82 is an exemption for properties used by nonprofits for grazing.
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line <00:16:16.360>83 <00:16:17.360>is <00:16:17.600>another grazing - On line 83 is another grazing.
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activities Individual for grazing activities remains exempt. - Um we have modified for grazing.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Processing: we buy a lot of those in stocker calves and turn them out on wheat and winter grazing.
- there on the Big Bend State Park, where we have an estimated 2,000 cattle crossing in from Mexico, grazing
- know the cattle are crossing, up to 2,000 head of Mexican cattle coming into the United States. ...grazing
- There are 12 million cattle that graze our lands, more than 5 million white-tailed deer, plus mule deer
- Over half a million cattle graze pastures in South Texas, and nearly all of them, except for the wild
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Sep 11th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- But they said, well, the closest thing we can look at is that grazing cattle. Right?
- Like, are they going to be grazing? How much area are they going to need?
- The program is bringing people together and building partnerships with ranchers, grazing permittees,
- The next two photos are of two experts in regenerative grazing from Chihuahua Mexico, Alejandro Carillo
- , and Fernando Falomir, on visits to a ranch on the Taos Plateau and the Valle Vidal grazing permit,
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate and House Tax Policies Discussion Group - 05/12/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the Senate-only National Guard and construction, the sports and events tax revenue ruling, PT for grazing
- Um yes, this is for nonprofit groups that own grazing land.
- In order to ensure, and quite frankly, as grazing has become an accepted method of grassland management
- order to ensure and quite frankly, as in order to ensure and quite frankly, as uh<00:49:12.960>
grazing - has become a an accepted uh grazing has become a an accepted method<00:49:15.720>
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/25/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- just the idea of the Department of Ag and, uh, coming up with ways to, uh, offer more rotational grazing
- And we like talking about the rotational grazing and the things that we might be able to do to help,
- And we like talking about the rotational grazing and the things that we might be able to do to help let