The North Dakota Farm Bureau has been tracking a pair of measures in their state legislature. Farm Bureau Public Policy Director Pete Hanebutt says there’s been progress on a bill the provides better private property protections for landowners and still allow hunters to have access.

He says Farm Bureau took a neutral position on a bill that would have changed the state’s beef checkoff program. Hanebutt says that measure was defeated in the House so the present program will remain in place as is.

Hanebutt says another bill was introduced to have the North Dakota Legislature meet every year rather than every other year but that was defeated.

Hanebutt says by the end of this week, the North Dakota Legislature will have reached its halfway point.