What Is North Dakota’s Corporate Farming Ban Protecting Us From Again?
This year Governor Doug Burgum signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers which waters down North Dakota's corporate farming...
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Plain Talk: ND Grocers Out to Gut Food Freedom Bill, and Why Can’t Second Cousins Farm Together?
On this episode of Plain Talk, Ag Week publisher Katie Pinke talks about North Dakota's corporate farming ban. A bill...
North Dakota’s Corporate Farming Ban Is So Dumb We Have to Pass a Law So You Can Farm With Your Second Cousin
Let's say your great-grandfather immigrated to North Dakota and started a farm. It was a successful operation and, upon his...
One of North Dakota’s Biggest Proponents of the Corporate Farming Ban May Have Inadvertently Triggered Its Demise
Back in 2016, as political extremists demonstrated violently against the Dakota Access Pipeline the owner of the historic Cannonball Ranch...
Attorney General: North Dakota’s Ban on Corporate Farming Won’t Apply to Medical Marijuana Growers
As the State of North Dakota works toward implementing the legalization of medical marijuana voters approved on the 2016 ballot,...
Thank the Government for Protecting You From Low Milk Prices
A reader recently sent me a picture of this sign posted on the glass door of a refrigerated display at...
Matt Evans: Does North Dakota Really Need To Change?
I did not grow up in North Dakota. I’ve lived many places in the US, all of them in suburbs...
John Andrist: Is Corporate Farming Really A Bogeyman?
There will be only one statewide measure on the June Primary Election ballot. It’s a measure passed by the legislature,...
What Willie Nelson Gets Wrong On Measure 1: The Corporate Farming Ban Isn't Protecting Anything
"Each year in nearly every part of the country, swaths of farmland are turned over as yet another family farm...
Why North Dakota's Corporate Farming Ban Is Like A Gay Marriage Ban
Last week the North Dakota Farm Bureau announced that they would be filing a legal challenge to our state's ban...
