Several state policy proposals of the South Dakota Farmers Union meet what their National Group is looking at. South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says one of their primary goals is to address the concentration problem that is hurting farmers and ranchers across the country.

He says solutions at both the national and state level need to be achieved with specific legislation as those problems are hitting farmers and ranchers and consumers the same way.

Sombke points to specific bills that call for holding large companies accountable for how they’re impacting agriculture in a negative way.

Sombke says it’s critical that ag and non ag interests work together with members of both political parties to achieve solutions that benefit everybody and get partisan politics out of the equation.