Category: Agriculture

Last weekend, Heidi Heitkamp tweeted this video of a “huge pile of unsold soybeans in Casselton” and said this “is what the trade war looks like.” Except it’s not. According to Maple River Grain and Agronomy, the pile “will start being picked up next week” and “is almost exactly the same size it was last year.”…

Heidi Heitkamp has spent the entire election cycle trying to use North Dakota’s farmers, ranchers, and producers as political pawns. REMINDER: Heitkamp makes these attacks because a pillar of Heitkamp’s campaign strategy is fanning the flames of farmer’s fears. Throughout the entire Farm Bill process, Heitkamp has put politics above North Dakota’s farmers. Her attacks increased…

Heidi Heitkamp claims she’s fighting for farmers, but her actions prolong these trade disputes and hurt the agriculture community in the process. Despite Heitkamp’s fearmongering, great progress has been made for securing better trade deals: USA Today: Canada agrees to join U.S. and Mexico in new trade deal to replace NAFTA NPR: Trump Announces Trade…

President Trump today announced a new trade deal has been reached to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. This trade deal is a win for our economy, as “the U.S. made very significant” victories. But this news is a loss for Heidi Heitkamp, who has built her campaign on fanning the flames of farmers’ fears. As…

During commercials of the Sunday shows and football games, be sure to check out this local profile of a North Dakota farmer and Congressman Kevin Cramer’s new op-ed on trade. Steve Kirch of “Dickinson News” profiled North Dakota farmer and Trump supporter Wayne Gerbig to hear his position on trade. Some key points of the article: Some ranchers…

The North Dakota Republican Party released a new digital ad today calling out Heidi Heitkamp for playing politics with North Dakota’s farmers and ranchers. As Congress continues its work to author a new Farm Bill, Heidi Heitkamp has consistently put her own reelection campaign above the needs and concerns of the agricultural community. Throughout this…

Heidi Heitkamp is out with her eleventh ad of the cycle today, once again playing politics with North Dakota’s agricultural community.    While feigning interest in helping rural North Dakotans, Senator Heitkamp has spent the past year using farmers and ranchers as political props to attack President Trump and Kevin Cramer.    Throughout the campaign…

On a day most Americans traditionally set aside for remembrance and patriotism, Heidi Heitkamp decided to spend her time yesterday attacking her political opponent by using a cheap, political gimmick:    As was previously reported, Kevin Cramer had already made prior commitments before receiving this invitation, but sadly that won’t mean anything to the Heitkamp campaign where facts don’t matter.   Yesterday we…

Hey everyone— Heidi Heitkamp just introduced legislation to redistribute revenue gained from President Trump’s tariffs and give it to farmers and ranchers. If you’re looking for a vocal critic of Heitkamp’s bill, look no further than Heitkamp herself. When President Trump’s Administration in July announced its trade assistance package to protect farmers and ranchers from…