LYMAN — Harriet Hageman will be the guest speaker at the Uinta County annual Farm Bureau meeting Monday night, Sept. 20.

The meeting will be held at the Heritage Barn and will start at 6 p.m. and will include a dinner.

Hageman just recently announced her candidacy for the lone US House seat and is posed to run against incumbent Liz Cheney, who will be up for reelection next year.

According to Carl Larson, Farm Bureau board member, the meeting will also include information on President Biden’s 30 by 30 conservation plan. He signed the order in January after taking office and the plan is to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by 2030. Environmental groups say yahoo, but people like those who earn a living off of the land are apprehension like many in Wyoming are apprehensive as to how this will affect their livelihoods. The fact is just 12 percent of American land is within permanently protected areas today. The question is: Where will the rest come from? In Wyoming, the majority of the land is held by the government.

Another issue to be discussed is the H2-S program, which provides for legally bringing in foreign workers to work as sheep herders, the talk on the federal level is to drastically increase the wages of these workers, Larson said. The plan is to pass a resolution, send it to the Department of Labor and try to stop the inordinate incrase in wages. Wages for these workers have already been raised.

Larson said the resolution notes, the wages of these foreign workers was based on the “prevailing wage rate” collected by the state employment agency, in the areas they were employed. These workers work differently than the 8-hour shifts people normally work.