Published August 20, 2011, 12:00 AM


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Del Gates, center, who farms near Mohall, N.D., and is a director of the U.S. Durum Growers Association, speaks on Friday at a meeting in the Brynhild Haugland Room of the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck. Terry Weckerly, left, a Hurdsfield, N.D., farmer and president of the North Dakota Grain Growers Association, and Don Forsberg, right, the executive vice president of the Independent Community Banks of North Dakota, listen at the meeting.

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