North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne sat down with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss the farm bill at this year’s NFU convention. The discussion included possible funding solutions for a new farm bill. “We’ve thrown out a lot of ideas and I’m hoping we can go forward because we really don’t want another extension and that uncertainty.” According to Watne, the farm bill still needs a lot of work. “We pushed pretty hard on getting reference price increases, maybe ARC improvement and better crop insurance buy-up levels.”
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