BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s biggest farm group wants increased crop subsidies and other revenue loss protections in the compromise version of the massive federal farm bill to guard against retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agriculture exports.

“There are outside factors out of our control and we need to raise the prices as a safety net to keep farmers farming,” said Mark Watne, president of the North Dakota Farmers Union, which has more than 45,000 members in the state. “The quickest way to resolve this is to raise those reference prices. That would make everybody feel substantially better.”

Watne said that is the message he planned to bring Friday to a meeting of agriculture officials and others hosted by Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer to discuss the House and Senate versions of the 2018 farm bill.

Cramer was named this week as a House conferee to reconcile the two versions of the legislation that would renew farm programs such as crop subsidies, insurance and land conservation. The negotiations come amid low commodity prices and farmers increasingly are worried that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports may depress commodity prices further.

Cramer, in an interview with The Associated Press, said he will consider pushing for more money in the legislation but was concerned that it could stall it.