Don Keelan: Regulatory fatigue has arrived

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Don Keelan, a retired certified public accountant and resident of Arlington. The piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
Steve Eder’s New York Times article describes how regulatory fatigue has overcome the apple orchard operations at Indian Ladder Farms, in Altamont, New York. And while the story describes an agricultural site in New York, it is quite relevant to Vermont.
Peter G. Ten Eyck II operates a 300-acre apple orchard south of Alba