S.F. 188: Senator Gustafson: Ortho-phthalate testing results reporting of packaged food requirement.

Testifiers: Michael Hanson – Scientist, Consumer Reports, Hannah Olson – Health Professionals for a Healthy Planet, Avonna Stark – Executive Director, Clean Water Action, Lori Olinger – Coalition for Plastic Reduction, Megan Baumler – PHD, RDN, LDN, Associator Professor, St. Catherine University, Dr. Zeke McKinney, MD HealthPartners and Professor at University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Darin Broton – Executive Director, Agrigrowth, Andrew Morley – Director, Environmental Policy, MN Chamber of Commerce

Discussion only.

S.F. 2473: Senator Hoffman: Minnesota Black Farmers Association purchase of advanced 21st century farming equipment for use by a cooperative of Black veteran farmers appropriation.

Testifiers: Julius Cochran, Angela Dawson – MN Farmer, Michael Chaney – Project Sweetie Pie

Discussion only.

Woman's Environmental Institute Incubator Farm Project

Testifiers: Karen Clark - Women’s Environmental Institute, Activist Executive Director, Farhio Khalif – Somali American Farmers Institute, Thierno Sow – Beginning Farmer, Farming Business Student at WEI

Discussion only.

S.F. 2653: Senator Kupec: Solar pollinator programs special license plate establishment and agrivoltaic solar sites eligibility for solar site management practices provision.

Testifiers: Rob Schultz – Vice President, Audubon Upper Mississippi River, Sarah Whebbe – Senior Policy & Regulatory Affairs Associate, MnSEIA, Colleen Hollinger – Director, Natural Resource Services, Sophia Lenarz-Coy – Executive Director, The Food Group, Eric Buchanan – Director of Renewable Energy, University of Minnesota West Central Outreach Center

Discussion only.

S.F. 3083: Senator McEwen: Pesticides from treated seeds addition to the Commissioner of Agriculture's pesticide management plan requirements; appropriating money.

Testifiers: Erin Rupp – Minnesota Pollinator Stewardship Council, Dave Legvold – Minnesota Farmer, Monta Hayner – Fly Fishing Women of Minnesota, Orvis Endorsed Guide Driftless Fly Fishing Company, Dawn Georgieff – Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Julia Brokaw – Xerces Society, Jane Windsberger – Minnesota Farmer, Ashley Runholt – Agronomy Sales Manager, Cottonwood Oil Co-op, Lee Helgen – Executive Director, MN Crop Production Retailers

Discussion only.