House Bill 1153 was heard in the North Dakota Senate Agriculture Committee that would designate half of all corn checkoff dollars to the Corn Growers Association instead of the funding being totally managed by the North Dakota Corn Council. This issue seems to stem from disagreement of how funds are currently utilized. Representative Mike Brandenburg introduced the bill to the committee. North Dakota Corn Council Executive Director Jean Henning says the bill as written would greatly impact current research projects that are funded by the council. “Our research program would be non-existent. We couldn’t support NDSU or UND research.” said Henning.
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