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Prairie Grains is the
official publication of
the Minnesota
Association of
Wheat Growers,
North Dakota Grain
Growers Association,
South Dakota Wheat,
Inc., and the
Minnesota Barley
Growers Association.

MINNESOTA

• The MAWG urges that the U.S. and the World Trade Organization (WTO) place more attention on addressing unreasonable sanitary/phytosanitary tolerance levels used to obstruct international grain trade.

• The MAWG endorses the creation of a national initiative and federal funding for the control of fusarium head blight and other wheat diseases.

• The MAWG endorses an adequately funded and aggressively used Export Enhancement Program.

• The MAWG supports deferred payment contracts on grain sales for cash basis farmers to remain qualified under current law, and not be considered as installment sales to be taxed under the alternative minimum tax, or AMT.

• The MAWG supports the establishment of a farmer individual retirement account (IRA) for depositing farm income and proceeds from the sale of capital assets.

• The MAWG endorses the trial of alternative crop insurance programs, and supports reform of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation’s nonstandard classification.

• The MAWG supports legislation that would remove taxes on the gain from a sale of a business or facilities to a producer-owned, non-federated cooperative.

• The MAWG urges that any increase in Minnesota Department of Transportation funding be dedicated to road maintenance and spent according to the present formula.

NORTH DAKOTA

• NDGGA supports a correction of the disparity in the FAIR Act barley payment level.

• NDGGA supports the continuation of a viable federal crop insurance program addressing: continuation of prevented planting option; APH is not affected by reported prevented planting acres; and reinstatement of 75% payment level.

• NDGGA urges the Administration to establish a warning benchmark for Canadian barley imports based on the same criteria as wheat.

• NDGGA supports private property rights and endorses efforts to establish a national no-net loss of private property act.

• NDGGA urges Canada and the U.S. to share crop protections registration data in order to reduce the time and expense of product registration.

• NDGGA demands that any governmental agency inform a landowner before they assess, certify, or delineate the characteristics of his land. The landowner must be notified of a forthcoming survey of his land and be given sufficient opportunity to accompany the officials’ inspection.

SOUTH DAKOTA

• SD Wheat requests that the fall final planting date be extended to October 15th.

• SD Wheat requests that the final

spring planting date be extended to May 15th;

• SD Wheat requests that the Office of Risk Management review the county eligibility to be covered for spring and winter wheat;

• SD Wheat requests that the CRP contracts follow the guidelines of the contracts;

• SD Wheat requests the Corps of Engineers, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, the Department of Transportation, National Forest Service and US Game Fish and Parks to prevent and control the spread of noxious weeds on the land they manage, control and/or own;

• SD Wheat recommends that existing CRP contracts with an EI of 8 be extended.

These are some of the new policy resolutions adopted by each of the states for 1997. For a complete list, contact the MAWG at 1-800-242-6118; the NDGGA at 1-800-932-8822; or SD Wheat Inc., 1-800-WHEATSD.

January 1997