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The AgriBank District Farm Credit Council recognized Minnesota Representative Michelle Fischbach with its Friend of Farm Credit Award. Fischbach is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction on tax policy, trade and other areas. At the farm event near Elbow Lake on Friday, Fischbach highlighted Mexico’s proposed ban on biotech corn imports. “They are not following through on what they agreed to (in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and we need to just continue to go after them and make them understand we do not want them refusing to take our products,” said Fischbach. “We’ve been after Ambassador (Katherine) Tai to do that so we have a market for our GMO corn.” Fischbach referenced the handling of the dispute over dairy trade between the U.S. and Canada through USMCA.