U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp Saturday toured the Langdon NDSU Research Extension Center and continued her discussions with farmers, ranchers, agriculture leaders, and faith leaders about North Dakota priorities she fought for in the bipartisan Senate-passed Farm Bill and the damaging impact of the administration’s escalating trade war.
In Langdon Saturday, Heitkamp met with representatives from the North Dakota Farmers Union, Cavalier County Farmers Union, local farmers from Langdon and Lakota, and the director of the NDSU Extension Center. She heard concerns about the administration’s trade war and detailed her efforts to promote a smarter trade policy that expands markets for North Dakota producers, including frequent meetings with administration officials and by cosponsoring bipartisan legislation to give Congress a say in the tariffs.
Heitkamp fought to protect funding for agriculture research in the bipartisan Senate Farm Bill, and Saturday toured the Extension Center’s test plots and learned about their research on crops like winter wheat, canola, flax, soybeans, dry edible beans and other crops that dominate acreage in the region.