The new water rule issued by the Environmental Protection Ag­­ency (EPA) is even broader than the preliminary rule the agency first proposed in 2014, according to a new analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).

The rule threatens to add more risk and uncertainty for farmers, as well as creating permitting requirements for normal farming activities, such as fertilizing and applying crop protection, and raises the potential for strict enforcement actions, it said.

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