Governor Tim Walz and state Ag Commissioner Thom Petersen are in East Grand Forks this afternoon (215pm) for a roundtable discussion with farmers who are having problems harvesting and transporting their crops due to wet weather. “This is a perfect storm, from stalled trade deals to bad policies on biofuel to some horrific weather,” says the governor. “I’m hearing from folks, certainly old-timers in this — it doesn’t matter [if it’s] soybean, potato, sugar, wheat — they’re saying unprecedented. They’ve not seen it like this.”
Before the roundtable, the governor continues his tour of projects vying for state bonding dollars. He’ll visit a wastewater treatment plant in Detroit Lakes (9:15am), then go to Moorhead to tour Minnesota State facilities (11:15am) and visit a proposed rail grade separation project (12:20pm).