Senator Tina Smith visited Bejou, Minnesota farmer Mike Gunderson in his wheat field Wednesday to discuss the new farm bill. Crop insurance and additional funding for trade promotion were cited as farm bill priorities. Gunderson, who is president of the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers, is also seeking higher reference prices. Gunderson said it is a matter of parity. “For corn, the reference price is 90 percent of the cost production in the last five years; for soybeans, it is in the upper 80s,” said Gunderson. “For wheat, we’re closer to 70 percent and we’d like to see that to be a little more equal standing with other commodoties.”
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