Mother Nature has taken North Dakota farmers and ranchers on a wild ride in recent years, including a drought and April blizzards. During Friday’s farm bill roundtable, North Dakota Stockmen’s Association Executive Vice President Julie Ellingson asked the senators to preserve and enhance livestock disaster programs. “There are opportunities in the Livestock Forage Program to remove arbitrary language to correct some errors relating to contract growers in the beef realm,” said Ellingson. “There also needs to be continued work on the Livestock Indemnity Program that looks at subsequent diseases resulting from those adverse weather conditions that may not happen at the time of the storm, but are a direct result of the storm. There needs to be clarity.”
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