Fighting drought, potato farmers in northern Minnesota overdrew their water permits by tens of millions of gallons

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By Greg Stanley, Star TribuneMar 11, 2023, 2:00 pm435 ptsTop
This story was originally published by the Star Tribune. During the 2021 drought, nearly 800 Minnesota farmers with high-capacity wells pumped 6.5 billion more gallons of water than their permits allowed, state records show. Farms on land owned or operated by R.D. Offutt Co., a potato-growing giant that has…

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