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Red River Farm Network'1. Final Beet Payment Tops Last Year's Projection —. American Crystal Sugar Company 2. According to RRFN sources, the 2.

American Crystal is holding $4 per ton for unit retains. Sources confirm the 2.

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Loss of Section 1. Deduction Will Impact Tax Bill —. American Crystal Sugar Company vice president of government affairs Kevin Price is alerting growers to one aspect of the House tax reform package, specifically the Section 1. Section 1. 99 works well for American Crystal and its shareholders. The loss of it will mean a big tax increase for sugarbeet growers. We’re working every angle we can find to keep it.” If the tax deduction goes away, Price says it would impact many cooperatives, not just American Crystal.

Also, there’s uncertainty on what will be in the Senate bill." Section 1. Domestic Production Activities Deduction. Estate Tax Exemption Included in Reform Package —.

Agriculture will see changes if the House GOP tax reform plan is enacted. The estate tax exemption for individuals will double from $5. South Dakota Representative Kristi Noem, who is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, participated in Thursday’s announcement. Repealing the death tax is incredibly important to me. It’s the most unfair tax in our tax code. It’s a double tax.

If we’re going to really get back to a tax code that helps people and doesn’t harm them, we have to repeal the death tax.” This provision also includes stepped- up basis on inherited assets. Heading to Capitol Hill —. There are many moving parts when writing a farm bill and the 2. To bring focus into this farm bill process, the Red River Farm Network will spend additional time on Capitol Hill.

RRFN kicks off this special series during the week of November 1. In these exclusive reports, you'll hear from important players in this debate. The RRFN Farm Bill Focus coverage is sponsored by the North Dakota Corn Growers Association, North Dakota Soybean Growers Association, National Farmers Union and Ag. Country Farm Credit Services. On- air and online, RRFN is Reporting Agriculture's Business.Administration Finally Names State FSA Directors —. Nearly one year after Donald Trump was elected president, the slate of Farm Service Agency and Rural Development State Directors has been announced. Brad Thykeson has been appointed for the North Dakota FSA.

Joe Martin will lead the Minnesota office and Paul Shubeck is going to take the helm at South Dakota. Thykeson farms in Barnes and Steele Counties and is a past president of the North Dakota Grain Growers Association. Martin previously served as the assistant commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and worked for Minnesota Farm Bureau, American Farm Bureau, Du. Pont Pioneer and the Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association. Shubeck farms at Beresford and is credited with developing South Dakota’s Wetland CRP Pilot Project.Carlson, Finstad and Gross to Lead Rural Development Efforts —. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has announced the new Rural Development state directors. They are Clare Carlson for North Dakota, Brad Finstad for Minnesota and Julie Gross for South Dakota.

For Carlson, this will be his second time with this title, having served as North Dakota’s Rural Development Director from 2. Watch Bloodsport III IMDB here. Carlson was also an agriculture advisor for Governors Ed Schafer and John Hoeven and is now a deputy director for North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance.

Finstad is now the CEO for the Center for Rural Policy and Development. Previously, Finstad was a state legislator and agriculture advisor for former Congressman Mark Kennedy. Gross is the economic development director for the Lake Area Improvement Corporation at Madison. The official start date for Carlson, Finstad and Gross is November 1. Corn Matters —. District meetings are coming up. Hear more in the Minnesota Corn Growers Association's Corn Matters program. USDA Leads Trade Mission to India —. USDA Undersecretary Ted Mc.

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Kinney has wrapped up a trade mission to India. Mc. Kinney says the response has been overwhelmingly positive. We have had many opportunities and real discussions for trade. Some of them are feeling out a sense of how you might do business. Some have advanced the ball.”.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson also participated in this trade trip.Let Landowners Make Their Own Decisions —. Earlier this year, the Minnesota legislature imposed a suspension on permitting for mowing and haying. Now, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is hosting a series of listening sessions regarding mowing and haying in ditches and other rights of way along state roadways in the state. State Representative Dan Fabian thinks it’s important to get local landowners make the decisions that work best for them.

Why do you want to have small animals or bees and butterflies close to the highway? It doesn’t make sense to me. Keeping deer more visible is really important. I think the system we have, even though the statutes say one thing, it’s not working, but people are making the ditch system work the way they think it works.”Mowing and Haying Feedback —. Noxious weed management, deer, pollinators and wildlife habitats.

All of these are concerns for farmers in northwestern Minnesota when it comes to mowing and haying road ditches. Minnesota Farmers Union vice president Bryan Klabunde says when the state doesn’t want to mow ditches and then tells landowners they can’t either- it doesn’t make sense. I think everyone had similar comments. They’re worried about safety and the quality of road ditches in rural areas.

We didn’t get too much into enforcement. I think that will be coming out more and more, who will enforce it and what will be the fine.”. At the first listening session, the Minnesota Department of Transportation told attendees the state highway patrol would be in charge of enforcement of the rule. What's Next? Additional listening sessions will be held in the next few weeks.

After the sessions, stakeholders will meet and review feedback. Minnesota Department of Transportation engineering department assistant commissioner Nancy Davenberger says stakeholders will be getting final recommendations together in December. We need to have recommendations in place by February 1. It goes through reviews before being submitted to the legislature. The deadline for submitting it to the legislature is March  1.”Lessons Learned —.