Derrick Van Orden: “We are at the forefront of not only organic farming, but…”

“You go from lock three to 11, right from red Wing down to Dubuque. We don't have a north south highway in the third congressional district. We have the Mississippi River. And we are, We are at the forefront of not only organic farming, but also conservation. So our guys built these retention ponds so you have runoff and all of these nutrients go into these ponds and then they settle the bottom. They pull them out, they reuse them.” (01:18–01:27)

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