Open to Ideas to Help Farmers

After hearing from farmers and others in an online Senate hearing Thursday, State Senator Rob Kupec of Moorhead said it is obvious that farmers are hurting. The DFL’er said the Legislature is open to new ideas to support agriculture. “There’s a small surplus within this biennium so there is a little bit of money there. We also have a rainy day fund. We need to be diligent because potentially going forward into some of the outyears, we may be at a little deficit if spending continues on the trends it is in so we’ll need to be careful there, but certainly, if we see that farmers that are hurting, if there’s something we can do tangible to help, I think we’ll make that effort.”