Gov. Dannel P. Malloy paid his semi-annual visit to the coalition of environmentalists and farmers called the Working Lands Alliance, where he announced support for legislation that would prevent the state’s 50,000 horses from being called “inherently dangerous” in state law.
“I’ve said many times that farming is part of our history, it’s part of our culture, it’s part of who we are and further it’s developing appropriate marketing solutions to some of the problems we’ve faced in the past,” Malloy told them. The group, however, in their overall praise, failed to hammer the governor on his proposed $3 million reduction in vocational-agriculture programming that has been so effective at places such as Nonnewaug High School, the Woodbury regional high school that attracts kids from as far away as Danbury and Seymour for its agriculture program and nationally recognized Future Farmers of America chapter.
