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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers are hosting the virtual public hearings on the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Challenges that the United States faces include stiffer competition for agricultural exports from Brazil, which has lowered its shipping costs and the Ukraine, where rail transportation costs are low.
“It still is the most important problem faced by growers in North Dakota and Minnesota,” said Mohamed Khan, North Dakota and University of Minnesota sugarbeet specialist.
A Barnes County, N.D., rancher wonders why the North Dakota Department of Agriculture couldn't stop a Fargo, N.D., source of sunflower "screenings" as a feed product when they knew it had been partially banned in Minnesota for excessive Palmer amaranth weed seeds.