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Representative Tom Barrett of Charlotte has been appointed to chair the Michigan House Ag Committee.

Barrett tells Brownfield after serving 17 years in the military, he’s interested in increasing opportunities for farmer veterans.  “There’s been a great bit of success with veterans that have struggled with post-traumatic stress or other invisible wounds coming home and finding agriculture as a therapeutic and really beneficial outlet for them, and I want to see what we can do to strengthen that.”

He says he’d also like to reexamine net metering in the state’s energy policy. 

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