• Cooperative North Dakota Research, Education & Extension Service Partners
• North Dakota Department of Agriculture
• North Dakota Fact Sheet, Economic Research Service, USDA. This specific fact sheet includes current data on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial characteristics, top ag commodities, top export commodities, and top counties in ag sales.
• North Dakota Farmers Markets
• North Dakota Marketing Profile
• North Dakota USDA Rural Development
• More Links
  • Division of Food and Lodging,North Dakota Department of Health
  • Food Entrepreneur, Your Resource Guide to the Food Industry
  • North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives (NDAREC)helps create and implement projects generating new wealth and jobs throughout North Dakota, through consultation technical assistance financing programs and education. NDAREC provides assistance to new and emerging cooperatives through technical advice and guidance, business analysis, and facilitated learning. Assistance is also provided to local leaders and producers in raising seed money and selecting a steering committee to lead the project and to investigate the feasibility of the project, determine an appropriate legal structure, and develop a business plan. They also assist in business plans and plan/conduct equity fund drives.
    • Bill Patrie, Rural Development Director, bpatrie@ndarec.com
      Susan Davis sdavis@ndarec.com
      Cooperative Development Specialists: Nathan Roesler, nroesler@ndarec.com;
      Lori Capouch, lcapouch@ndarec.com.  North Dakota Department of Commerce employs business development professionals to assist in business development.
  • Special Funding Sources
    • Ag Products Utilization creates new wealth and jobs through the development of new and expanded uses of North Dakota agricultural products. Grant monies are available.
    • Agricultural Research Fund is a special fund in the state treasury derived from checkoffs indicated on the oil tax refund of $0.04 per gallon of gasoline. The monies in the fund must be expended for agricultural research projects that have a positive economic impact for producers of crops and livestock in North Dakota.
    • Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives - provides assistance for cooperative agricultural efforts in North Dakota, Dr. Gregory McKee, Director, Gregory.McKee@ndsu.nodak.edu
      

Individual contacts in North Dakota for specific value-added agriculture information: