Farmers are in the Environmental Protection Agency’s crosshairs now. Unless more Americans wake up to the consequences of the agency’s strategy of using disinformation to divide and conquer, many families who till the land will become victims.

Ohio Farm Bureau members attending an event in Washington earlier this month learned more about the EPA’s campaign.

The EPA has quietly launched a new initiative during the past few years. It is called “Waters of the United States.”

Buckeye State Farm Bureau members were hosted recently by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Bob Gibbs, both Republicans from Ohio. The event, on Capitol Hill, was a forum the lawmakers hold annually.

Boehner explained the new EPA initiative is an attempt to expand the agency’s power “in ways you can’t even imagine.” EPA bureaucrats hope to regulate even tiny, isolated bodies of water, right down to “puddles in your fields,” Boehner said.

Gibbs told Farm Bureau members, the EPA plans to release final rules in its “Waters of the United States” campaign within the next two months.

The White House and EPA hope consumers do not realize targeting farmers will force some out of business – and drive up food prices.

And unless enough Americans prod their members of Congress to stop the EPA, it will get away with its new power grab.