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TOP HEADLINES
Statewide primary election: candidate overview:
Plan on voting in the June 28 primary election? Check out the candidate filings for these races [NewsOK].
Corporate tax is big loser for Oklahoma in May:
Oklahoma income tax refunds to wind power and other corporations exceeded what those businesses paid in income taxes last month, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services reported Tuesday [NewsOK].
North Dakota voters reject move to ease ban on corporate farming:
North Dakota voters on Tuesday rejected a move by the state to loosen its Depression-era rules prohibiting corporate farming [New York Times].
ND voters reject corporate farming, choose governor nominee:
North Dakota Republicans nominated former Microsoft executive Doug Burgum Tuesday in a primary likely to decide the next governor, and voters also overwhelmingly rejected the Legislature’s move to loosen the state’s Depression-era rules prohibiting corporate farming [Associated Press].
Frustration, concern over candidates’ anti-TPP stances:
Pork producers are concerned. “The world is not going to stand still and wait for the United States to have what amounts to a 1980s’ discussion about trade. We have a lot of skin in the game. U.S. agriculture, the U.S. economy, has a lot of skin in the game,” said Nick Giordano as he gave his trade and export update at the 2016 World Pork Expo [AgriNews].
Credit crunch for farm renters compounds stress on U.S. growers:
American farmers who expanded production using rented land during the commodity boom a few years ago are now struggling to repay loans [Bloomberg].
America needs legislators to support America’s fastest growing job:
In order to sustain this job growth, elected officials need to support American wind power—which has the potential to positively impact not only the economy, but also the environment [The Hill].
Summer nutrition programs close hunger gap for millions of children:
After three years of significant growth, national participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs plateaued last summer, according to the Food Research & Action Center’s annual Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation report released today [KCSG].
