JAMESTOWN — North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne directly challenged North Dakota’s Congressional delegation to proactively engage in finding solutions to the economic situation family farmers and ranchers face, largely due to rampant input costs and reckless decisions by the Trump Administration, NDFU said Friday, Oct. 24, in a news release.

“We are feeling the pain and being thrown to the sidelines to fail,” Watne said, referring to tariff wars that have affected soybean and other export grain markets and a recent announcement by President Donald Trump to quadruple the amount of beef imported from Argentina. “Our cattle ranchers are finally getting a fair price for the work they do and the investments they’ve made, and the administration responds by undermining that effort ra

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