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NCGA
Says 'No Spring Rise' for Missouri River (6-28-01)
The National Corn
Growers Association (NCGA) has again voiced its opposition to a spring
rise on the Missouri River.
The NCGA is among
several farm organizations that signed a letter to Congress to keep
Section 106 of H.R. 2311, the Fiscal Year 2002 Energy and Water Appropriations
Bill. Section 106 stipulates that changes in the management of the Missouri
River cannot be made to allow for alteration in springtime river flows.
Reps. Tom Latham
(R-IA) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) inserted Section 106 into the Energy
and Water Appropriations Bill last week. The Bill has been approved
by the House Appropriations Committee and is expected to be passed by
the full House later today.
NCGA is asking members
of Congress to vote against any amendment proposing to strike Section
106 because of the effects a spring rise would have on Midwestern farmers
and farmland.
"NCGA and the
other organizations feel that removing this provision could harm farmers
from Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas by the potential flooding of
their land and affect barge traffic on both the Missouri and Mississippi
Rivers," said Jamie Jamison, Dickerson, Md., farmer and chairman
of the NCGA Production and Stewardship Action Team.
Cosigners of the
letter are the Agricultural Retailers Association, the American Soybean
Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, the National
Grain and Feed Association, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives,
the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Midwest Area River Coalition.
Last
reviewed June 27, 2001
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