Poultry growers are squawking mad over proposed regulations from the Department of Homeland Security that anybody with 7,500 pounds or more of propane gas register with the agency. The threshold is low enough that poultry farmers who use propane to heat chicken houses in the winter may be affected.
"It would affect almost all of us," said Jenny Rhodes, who has 80,000 roasters in Centreville. She criticized the proposal to fill out "hellacious forms" and register farmers' propane use.
"I could think of a lot easier, better targets" for...
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