North Dakota Insurance

Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Schafer great differences in the 2008 Farm Bill to the firm by more than 20 driver’s license in his first public appearance in the state for certification as a secretary for only two months.

A former governor of North Dakota, Schafer came to the state to speak Sunday at the Republican Convention of the ND, Fargo, but its first stop in his hometown of Bismarck, who said he was glad that “back home , listen to what people think the real “Farm Bill.

Gov. John Hoeven, a Republican, for organizing the round-table, civil rights, but sometimes blunt.

“Get it done,” says Byron Richard, President of the North Dakota Grain Growers, the board Schafer and the administration to reconsider, which has offered Congress.

That assessment was confirmed by representatives of the sugar, corn and other important areas.

But Richard, of the hair, Belfield, ND, area, and its senior vice president, Terry Weckerly, Hurd, Field, ND, which have both said, it can be a “permanent” disaster of the program - but only they can be financed by the “new Silver” in the Farm Bill. They say that if permanent disaster is not funded at $ 4 billion, or $ 5 billion, farmers would have been better, with ad hoc training.

“If we have something away from direct intervention, a little far from the base hectares, by far, the crop insurance, we are better than where we were before?” Weckerly said. “He is back on a bird in the hand is more than just a bird in the bush.” The Grain Growers also from direct payments rather wheat and barley, farmers, and stick to the WTO more user-friendly.

Even Eric Aasmundstad, President of the North Dakota Farm Bureau, culture owns an insurance company, which sees the current billion $ 4 $ 5 billion, or even at the level of funding is not sufficient, and make Congress again in a program ad hoc disaster situation. “We do not need a Fly-by-night” permanent “disaster, the title is under-funded and not really for anybody, when they are shaken,” said Aasmundstad. He said, the management and operation of fund raising for insurance companies are reduced, which means, cutting service to farmers.

Disaster

But North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson and others, the continuous availability of catastrophe as a major advantage, and I think it is rather broaden participation crop insurance. Johnson said, it is logical that the insurance companies herbal wants more money for insurance herbal, but Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., Says Congress should dig improvement, according Farm Bill is passed.

Disposition permanent disaster is a priority of Senator Kent Conrad, DN.D., is a major player in the efforts of the Senate. Richard Schlosser, Vice-President of the North Dakota Farmers Union, Schafer asked to recommend Bush signed the bill with a permanent disaster, even though the administration rather Auffangnetz other mechanisms that do not distort trade.

The House of Representatives and the Senate of the tower above $ 10 billion more than the basic expenses. The administration has expressed its readiness to $ 6 billion of funding sources, but is still political change to agree to the $ 4 billion difference. “Unfortunately, Congress remains in dispute, in order to raise taxes, what to do, and this is not something that we have an interest in”

Still, Schafer, “he said of the opinion that the management systems and Congress can reach an agreement on funding sources of the bill before the deadline of April 18. He said that the administration would be in favor of “short extensions,” the most.

Gary Nelson, director of the Fargo base U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, said he believed that the Agency could provide the transmission main provisions of the programme to use 60 to 90 days after its adoption, but he added that Depends on the importance of changing the curriculum. He spoke also depend on these improvements in administrative management in the bill.

Extension

Schafer said that one in a year or two, an extension of a bill is not desirable to mention food and Special Programs crop.

Rep. Earl Pomeroy, DN.D., Schafer praised the optimism and energy as secretary, and agree that “it would be crazy to walk by the improvements we have made in this draft law. ”

Randy Schneider, president of the North Dakota asked the association of producers of ethanol, as Schafer towards reopening Conservation Reserve Program acreage reduction of the pressure, at its own expense, corn for the industry. Schneider noted that the costs of Railways for the provision of ethanol is 10 cents on the track, and could be reduced by 1 cent per gallon in the pipeline, if it can be built.

“Try to connect to incremental changes in agricultural policy, not monumental change,” said Scott Tewksbury, president of Heartland State Bank in Edgeley, ND “It was the monumental changes in the 1980’s, has the effect that, for decades, with a value of problems in our ag industry.

Others expressed concern about the programs for young farmers, beginning in the sector.

Today, Schafer is drafting for a meeting, an interview with the magazine ethanol and time, his wife, to Nancy, a speech to the posting of Gov. John Hoeven’s re-election. Schafer spoke of the Convention Sunday