 Wednesday Farm News on the Red River Farm Network. The Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association Executive Director, Caitlin Root, says elk and wolf numbers in Minnesota were some of the policy issues they dealt with during this year's legislative session. So we're always busy with policy, whether we're in legislative session or not. We were working on some elk issues this year, actually. Our producers are seeing high levels of elk depredation, and the DNR wanted to increase elk herd populations in the state of Minnesota.