Farmers who sell their locally-grown and homemade goods at tailgate markets in the mountains have run afoul of state inspectors, reports the Asheville Citizen-Times. It seems some merchants have not spent their $50 and registered their recipes with the state. (gasp!) Then there’s the farmer who’s been selling eggs for 35 years and feels a little harassed by the government rules.

Wayne Uffelman, who operates Blue Hill Farm in Marshall, sells about 300 dozen eggs a week and keeps booths at the North Asheville and downtown markets, where he sold out of eggs Wednesday.

?Even though I turn my eggs over every three days, the law is that they have to be at 45 degrees when I sell them,? said Uffelman, who’s been selling eggs for 35 years.

An expensive cooling system for market sales is unnecessary, he said. He understands the state has to protect the public, but he says he’s been keeping customers happy for years without the interference.

?For 30, 40 years there’s been an onslaught of laws passed to put us small farmers out of business,? he said.

From tariffs on sugar to agribusiness subsidies to $50 recipe registration fees, Wayne Uffelman seems to have a point.