Ag Agency, Starr want to keep farm plans under wraps

Sen. John Rodgers (left), D-Essex-Orleans, is vice chair of the Senate Committee on Institutions, and Sen. Robert Starr, D-Essex-Orleans, is chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Photo by Roger Crowley/VTDigger
Sen. Robert “Bobby” Starr, D-Essex-Orleans, is pushing a bill that would exempt farm pollution control plans from the Vermont Public Records Act.
If the records are released, Starr says, protesters might disrupt farmers. “People have way too much time on their ha