John Devney, 10, is ready to swing for the fences and play baseball again this summer. Courtesy Photo

READER REPLY: MAY 2021

This summer, I am most looking forward to playing baseball and making more friends. Baseball, and my dad, taught me to never give up right away, and wait a year or so and then decide whether you want to quit or not.

John Devney, age 10
Capital Electric Cooperative
 

Zac Smith, NDAREC communications and government relations director (top), and Paul Matthys, Cass County Electric Cooperative vice president of member and energy services, testify Feb. 3 before the Senate Industry, Business and Labor Committee. Photos By NDAREC/Liza Kessel

ELECTRIC CO-OPS TAKE ACTION

That’s been the case for the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives (NDAREC), the trade association for North Dakota’s electric cooperatives, which advocates for electric co-ops at the Legislature. Led by Zac Smith, NDAREC’s government relations arm is monitoring 63 of the 885 bills and resolutions introduced this session that may have a direct or ancillary impact on electric cooperatives and their members.

PALMER AMARANTH

CAN YOU ID IT?

PALMER AMARANTH
Palmer amaranth is a competitive and aggressive pigweed species that poses a major threat to North Dakota crop production. First identified in North Dakota in McIntosh County soybeans in August 2018, the weed has a wide genetic diversity, which allows it to adapt to new environments and develop resistance to many herbicides used to control pigweed species.

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