{"id":105985,"date":"2016-08-18T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105985"},"modified":"2016-08-18T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:15:22","slug":"heitkamp-visits-jmst-cleveland-farming-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105985","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp visits Jmst, Cleveland, farming issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31894\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png\" alt=\"SenatorHeitkampofficial\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-253x175.png 253w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp kicked off a two-day Farm Bill tour of North Dakota Thursday, touting provisions boosting North Dakota agriculture that she secured in the 2014 Farm Bill and hearing directly from farmers and other leaders about what she can do to fight for an even stronger Farm Bill in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp stopped at a farm near Cleveland to survey wetlands with producers and meet with representatives from Delta Waterfowl, a nonprofit that supports wetland conservation. On the visit, Heitkamp learned about a Delta Waterfowl pilot project that incentivizes farmers not to drain wetlands while continuing to farm the land, hearing specifically from farmers who have found the program to work for their operations.<\/p>\n<p>She then visited Jamestown at the North Dakota Farmers Union \u00a0discussing at a roundtable with farmers the importance of maintaining a strong farm safety net and crop insurance programs. Heitkamp discussed the 2014 Farm Bill, its implementation successes and challenges, as well as the work needed to protect crop insurance programs as Congress prepares for the next Farm Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp\u2019s tour is making several stops, from Mandan to Buxton and beyond, to tackle a range of priorities that North Dakotans have in the Farm Bill \u2013 including protecting crop insurance, supporting research, promoting exports, and supporting the sugar program.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp\u2019s agriculture tour continues on Friday, with stops in Buxton and Arthur to meet with producers and industry leaders about promoting U.S. agriculture exports, defending the sugar program, and supporting new and beginning farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 \u00a0U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp kicked off a two-day Farm Bill tour of North Dakota Thursday, touting provisions boosting North Dakota agriculture that she secured in the 2014 Farm Bill and hearing directly from farmers and other leaders about what she can do to fight for an even stronger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105986,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105985\/revisions\/105986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}