Groups at odds over proposed nitrate pollution rules for farmers in northeast Oregon

After decades of farm and food processing pollution contaminating groundwater in northeast Oregon, state regulators are proposing new monitoring and testing rules for large farms in the area.

But some of the groups invited to help in the drafting of the rules are at odds over what’s been proposed. In comments shared with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Board of Agriculture shortly before the new year, farm groups opposed to the rules…