(JAMESTOWN, N.D.) – 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.

“We are feeling the pain and being thrown to the sidelines to fail,” Watne said of tariff wars that have decimated soybean and other export grain markets, and a recent announcement by President 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 rather than investing in solutions that put more America

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