2006 Minnesota Statutes

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.
History: 1987 c 404 s 99