iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on May 13, 2021 11:10am Apple Pie (Pexels photo) Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Apple Pie Day, National Fruit Cocktail Day, National Hummas Day and World Cocktail Day — an eclectic mix that is sure to have a bit of something for everyone. (We’ll take an Old Fashioned, please, along with a slice of apple pie.) Here’s today’s agriculture news. The Lead Business leaders in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin are backing Canadian efforts urging a U.S. court to keep the Line 5 oil pipeline operating. As CBC News reports, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is attempting to shutdown the cross-border pipeline, which she insists poses an unacceptable environmental risk along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lake Huron with Lake Michigan. Line 5 supplies roughly half of Ontario and Quebec’s fuel. The Canadian government has also warned a shuttering of the pipeline could undermine Canada-U.S. relations.