A South Dakota farmer and national vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says the organization took a stronger stance on several key issues at the annual convention this week.

Scott VanderWal tells Brownfield Farm Bureau members want to see changes to the contract poultry pay system.

“It’s the way the current contracts are ran by the poultry companies,” he says. “If there’s a little hiccup in feed intake or something, it can drastically impact the way a producer is paid.

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