This is done specifically to shut down family owned farms - PERIOD.

This is what tyranny and government overreach looks like.

It’s not about the water. It’s about control and forcing people to be consumers instead being self sufficient. People that grow their own food or buy it locally from local farmers don’t do their grocery shopping at Walmart.

Q: What does a Government do after it disarms its citizens A: Anything it wants.

Wake up America. Stand up for small farmers and resist.

Put those damn politicians in jail where they belong

buying locally produced organic food is one of the most environmentally friendly things people can do.

THIS IS A HUGE "CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY" and should be arrested, audited, investigated AND JAILED WITHOUT PAROLE...FOR LIFE.

Rules to block humans growing their own food is a crime against humanity. Plain and simple.

It's time for Oregon farmers to stand up and tell the government to go pound sand

I grew up in Oregon, I find it very strange that Oregon never had a problem with water until the Californias relocated themselves and their froot-loop agendas to Oregon. Monsanto wanted all backyard gardens made illegal. The courts ruled against Monsanto yet they still found a backway in. Target the little guys go after their water. When will the elite just leave everyone alone ? How could America gone so wrong? Time to stand up and say NO , NO MORE , bills and laws rules and regs none of it in support of the people all of it supporting another pay raise with even better perks for the government . Unacceptable!!

It is unbelievable………We are so grateful for the farmers! Lord bless you all and protect you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Control the food = Control the people.

"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is duty."

The govt will come up with anything to shut down small farms. I heard about rainwater a few years ago. THIS IS PATHETIC WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE FARMERS! Love and Prayers!

I remember my mom telling me that some of the big farms in Arizona were told to till in their crops.I have no doubt.Our Government has their hands in more than we should have allowed. We aren't so far under that we can't fight back.But,we can't let someone else do it. If you do nothing.. you are saying it is alright and don't care about your fellow man.We had a lot of people die for our freedom and I am saddened that no one cares. Not enough to to change,just complain.

They need to get a darned good Constitutional Lawyer and file a class action lawsuit against the current Oregon lawmakers. I'd donate to that.

The State is supporting Commercial growers who use GMOs and pesticides.

There are 29 water bottle in companies in Oregon maybe Farmers should be investigating these peoples and the lobbyists and special interest groups. Just think about it people don’t farm all year round because of winter but they bottle water 365 days a year

Another complication is that there is a hefty property tax and minimum size limitation for Rural land to prevent large residential ranches. To balance that for farmers, there is an agricultural exemption. If these farms loose there agricultural exemption, the state is going to have a windfall in property tax income that these small farms will not be able to pay without selling their land.

NO FARMERS NO FOOD !!!

Get out and vote these scumbags out of office

This isn't just Oregon there's BS going on all over the country with farms

Now, Cows peeing is against the law? Big farms get all the water? We need to support these small farms!❤

Meanwhile... Here in Arizona, a large Saudi company is allowed to use millions of gallons of groundwater to grow alfalfa that's sent back to Saudi Arabia. They grow it here because even with the shipping costs, it's cheaper to grow alfalfa in Arizona than in Saudi Arabia. Politicians don't give a damn about the environment or their constituents. All they care about is their under the table kickbacks.

how is this not a civil rights and federal crime against these people

Anyone see those farmer protests? WHERE ARE OUR PEOPLE 🇺🇸 ?!

Oregon consumers are seeing this too as the price of eggs in the grocery store has skyrocketed.

I didn't vote for this circus lol If they are worried about water, why do they keep dumping it into the ocean.

What party is in control of Oregon, California, and Washington? That should answer the question of why is this happening!

I live in Oregon and I never heard about this. Oregon is big on environmentalism but they are not unreasonable regarding farms. People rarely use ground water here, We mainly use water from mountain lakes and rivers. I will have to look into this. We have plenty of water except for the extreme SW corner of the state.

They don't have the authority to implement this decision of their own creation. Anyone involved in the fiasco enforcement is going to suffer very grave consequences..... you will see.....

The people of Oregon need to vote out their politicians.

"Control the food, CONTROL THE PEOPLE" enough said ......

I'd intercept half of the Rio Grande river before it hits Mexico for water to send needed farms. since Prez Obredor wants 20 million a year in ransom to stop illegals , we don't have to allow our water to go there.

Politicians are like toddlers. You can’t take your eyes off them for a second.

In Europe, farmers are protesting in France, Poland, Germany, ect. Sometimes those protest have turn VIOLENT. Our news says nothing about it: Why. Agenda 2030, that's why governments are passing those laws. Those small farmers should band together and PROTEST!!!! At the State House. If the farmers in Europe can do it. So can the farmers in Oregon.

Protect your small and mid-sized farmers, Oregon!!

Land is being possessed by local and federal government and being sold to the highest bidders, most of them foreign entities.

They should all sue for violating their civil rights. Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness

Ohhh but a polluting lithium mine can use all the water it wants to!!??

What a sad & pathetic world we currently live in

We need to have a 50 state lawsuit filed with the Federal Supreme Court

Please stand up for your rights Oregon. We need farmers and our country.

It's a page out of Stalin page book. Control food control the people. Farms been around since beginning of time.

They attack little farmers but say a word to golf course and the amount of water wasted to keep the little white ball to roll

As a prior Oregon native I'm curious as to who they're taking their orders from it certainly isn't their constituents

Sounds like a class action lawsuit against the state needs to be brought to a lawfirm ready to fight for peoples rights.

I rely on small farmers, the commercial food sold at grocery stores is loaded with "HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP" and chemicals. They are fearless with their animals. I try very hard not to shop at Safeway/Albertsons, instead give my business to farmers markets and organic growers. May God Bless Oregon Farmers and get them through the crazy. Dump your legislature folks we need change for the good and change for LIFE

Oregon farmers need to stand up and tell the government to go pound sand.

WTH is happening in Oregon? It's policies get worse and worse! Like upside down world. So glad I didn't move there.

We are about to see what starvation looks like in this country…..I’m an old man (76) so I have clear memories of when ,, while not perfect, this was the most successful society to EVER exist. We have let the parasites destroy the host.

The best way to retaliate is to band together with other small farmers and sue the shit out of those lawmakers. They are hitting the small farms because they know common folk can survive with them after they destroy the big food processors. We all know and can see what`s going on here.

This is why the biggest part of Oregon is voting to become part of Idaho with the greater Idaho is growing. Because of things like this.

There's no way all of the new regulations fit under the 1909 law. The amount of technology and changes in growth of the population should have caused the 1909 law to no longer fit the situation. It's not surprising though that they're using such an antiquated law as they're trying to argue the gun control restrictions back in by stating that it should only cover firearms that were built prior to 1859 which is when Oregon's Constitution was written. If that's the case and they actually win in the 1909 law would no longer be allowed because we would have to go back to 1856 and I have a feeling there weren't any water restrictions at all then.

Governments should leave farmers alone in my opinion

If water is public and you can't have any unless you pay a permitting free or shut down, then when do the commercial growers pay me for there use of public resources?

Question. Who initiated these changes? This is evil.

Pursuit of happiness is illegal now. Just imagine having worked all your life and upon retirement you can’t take up gardening for this tyrannical law.

The majority of these farms are in Eastern Oregon. They recently voted to disassociate with Oregon and become a part of Idaho. This is tyrannical retaliation.

Stop voting for Dumbascraps!!

So they are trying to tell you that the small farmers are using too much water in a rain forest ,and at the same time the large farmers are not?

"Food is a weapon and we shouldn't be afraid to use it as one"... Henry Kissinger.

If nothing else this is a violation of Life, Liberty, and the persuit of happiness. Where's the freedom in this?

This is crazy and terrible. Come on Oregon. You are better than this.

No farmers no food. It’s bs.

Shutting down the small farms is scummy any support of that is ridiculous

Everybody needs to dive into what's happening in their own states. Most regulation we don't hear about until it's on us. This is part of a larger agenda. It's about control. People in Oregon need to bring up lawsuits.

Class action lawsuits need to be filed for damages and compensation from the state .

When I had a dairy in Oregon, 40 years ago, the average dairy milked 65 cows. Today, one of the largest I know of milks about 30,000 cows. Small dairies take better care of their cows. Each cow is important. On big dairies, a cow is just a number. Many don't live thru 2 milking cycles. Look up the statistics yourself. Since 2017 120 small dairies closed.

I thought the responsible thing was to "Buy Local". These people can't even get their own priorities straight.

I'm a 7th-generation Oregon Native raised in Ranching, Farming, and Water well drilling. You showed a clip that took me by surprise and almost had me believing that the climate really has heated up for I did not know that cotton was now grown in the Beaver State!! So when the politicians meet in the Legislature, upon that very hard and solid floor mooing and baaing as if like livestock, methane spewing water user flushing toilets often are they not a "Contained Human BS Operation"??? Ok if not on the Legislation floor what about when they all go to lunch?? If a water well on private property is now a public water source does that mean anyone at any time can come to that well on said property to withdraw water?? Stand your ground and keep being an Oregonian. It is what the State was founded on or has "The Oregon Trail" been removed from American history now? What can the politicians do to everyone who keeps being an Oregonian with a few cows and chickens or a dang garden? Threaten them? Throw us in a Gulag? State of Jefferson or build a fence around Portland and Salem?

The farmers need to get a class action lawsuit together and demand the removal of Vilsek from his position.

They want to take your rights away and now they don’t want you to eat.

What people are starting to realize is commercial food is yucky. So the people are going to small farms for their food. If the big guys aren't making all the money they want all these farms gone. If you control the food you control the people.

Let me get this right 3 cows on 11 acres (11 football fields about the same size) are detrimental to ground water??? The homeless i have personally seen pissing and crapping under the overpasses is no problem, why do they get off scott free ?? Welcome to the new california type state.

Eastern Oregon didn't vote these people in.

Shame on the Oregon government.

One thing he also left out is that it's illegal to harvest rainwater in Oregon.

Stop paying taxes. Now’s the time.

This is called tyranny

Wake up people! This is only the beginning! Control the food, control the people!

Studies have shown that small farms are much mor efficient than big ones.

Same thing that happened during the "Great Depression", but instead of price fixing, the state of Oregon is using "public water".

Oregon's problem is people that are running it!!! What do you think?😮😊

Resist while you can! We have a right and a duty to disobey unconstitutional laws. Resist!!!

This is a well organised way of stopping all small farmers so they can control the big ones and control what you eat doesn't have anything to do with farming.

And we're already living in tyranny... blind people...

This isn’t about voting, it’s about the unelected bureaucrats applying the laws unfairly to those who can’t fight back.

I can give you some examples that correlate to this. First off, I grew up with a father who was in charge of the 11 western states for meat and poultry. He knew this business from the inside. So what did he tell me? This; Jim he said, the big meat packers can't compete with certain areas of the country due to shipping costs and some other related costs when it comes to breaking into local markets. That is, local meat producers could provide meats for a much lower cost. Thus keeping the big guys from making any headway into those local markets. The answer? The big meat producers went to Washington D.C. and lobbied ( ie, bought off congress) to pass a number of new 'safety' rules when it comes to the handling of meat and poultry. These new rules were just like what happened to your local gas station owner who couldn't afford all the new laws regarding the environmental 'improvements' put in place on them either by the big oil companies. That's why gas is like two cents different between stations in your local. See, this is how it works. Big powerful companies will go to the government with a suitcase full of cash having them pass laws that run small businesses out of business. Oh, it'll be coined as being done for the public's safety or some other do-gooder purpose. But in the end it's all about competition and running off the independent suppliers. Check out any segment of our society and you'll see this repeating. Over and over again.

You In Oregon better wake up and revolt!!!!!

The government needs to leave the small farms alone 😢😢

There is a time when good men must stand up against tyrrany.

There is more than enough water for all and watering crops. Why does the government control our water? This is big brother and We the People need to stand up to them!

Targeting small scale farmers means the big corporate outfits get the benefit after they are gone. Win WIN. They do not want the little guy down they want you GONE.

God bless small farms!!! Our hearts are with you

It’s time we the people be heard loud and clear. Our freedoms are be trampled on.

government overreach makes my blood boil

This is absolutely a bunch of B.S. Shameful !!! I hope these farmers sue !! Oregon Has really gotten to be a shit hole !! We got to support our farmers !

Does anyone still wonder why the "Greater Idaho" movement is gaining interest in more Oregon counties?