Governor lays out plans as drought continues
Though most of Monday night's town hall meeting in
"This afternoon I did sign a request to
The small grains season is "shot", Burgum said, and a lot of focus is turning towards livestock and helping people survive winter with their livestock.
"There is cross-state support going on, we've gotten suggestions made about possible sources of feed," He added. "We've got to get livestock to food or food to livestock. That's the basic math for maintaining herds."
By the third year of a drought, Burgum said everyone is "collectively thin" and that drives prices up even higher.
"Anything we can do from the governor's office, from my office, we'll be doing,"
On the other hand, Goehring did say that there had been "great response" from the current Secretary of Agriculture, former
"It took some urging...but they are doing as much as they can with the resources that are currently available," Goehring said. "Secretary Perdue was great about it. If anybody wants to doubt his commitment to agriculture, the fact that he opened up...all those contracts that had restrictions on grazing...that opened up 500,000 acres. He opened those up. He's going to get sued for it...and he did it anyways. Hats off to him."
Those 500,000 acres are part of the Conservation Reserve Program, which is a land conservation program administered by the
"There's 1.5 million CRP acres in
He said that the contract holder, the
"Yeah, that's one of the reasons why we talked about the emergency livestock water program," Goehring said. "If it's possible to build a pipeline up to the edge of CRP land...but it still comes down to you have to put a wire around it. Does that mean you put up another three-strand barbed wire fence, and then guard that fence until your cows are trained not to run through it? Unfortunately, that's the problem."
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