{"id":114477,"date":"2017-01-12T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114477"},"modified":"2017-01-12T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:19:00","slug":"judges-ruling-allows-ndfu-to-intervene-corp-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114477","title":{"rendered":"Judge&#8217;s ruling allows NDFU to intervene, corp farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Farmers Union\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown (CSi-NDFU) \u00a0A\u00a0U.S. District Court judge Wednesday granted a motion allowing North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of North Dakota\u2019s corporate farming statute. NDFU had petitioned the court for intervenor status in October of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling allows the state\u2019s largest farm organization to participate in the ongoing litigation. Current state law prohibits non-family farm corporations or LLCs from owning farmland or engaging in production agriculture; the law is being challenged by North Dakota Farm Bureau and other litigants.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers Union led a referral last year of a law that would have allowed corporate ownership of land by dairy and swine operations. That measure was defeated by 75 percent of voters and failed to pass in every single county.<\/p>\n<p>NDFU President Mark Watne issued a statement on Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland\u2019s ruling:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019re extremely pleased with the judge\u2019s ruling today. It gives us the ability to actively participate in the legal defense of a law that is incredibly important to family farm and ranch agriculture in our state\u2019s a law. \u00a0Farmers Union has consistently defended since we first helped enact it in 1932.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The vote last June was pretty clear. North Dakotans want family farms as their primary business structure and system of agricultural production, not corporate farming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re going to do everything we can to make sure the will of the people is honored and family farming remains the backbone of our agricultural economy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi-NDFU) \u00a0A\u00a0U.S. District Court judge Wednesday granted a motion allowing North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of North Dakota\u2019s corporate farming statute. NDFU had petitioned the court for intervenor status in October of last year. The ruling allows the state\u2019s largest farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114477","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=114477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114489,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114477\/revisions\/114489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}