North Dakota State Resources
- 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 USDA Rural Development
- More Links
- Division of Food and Lodging, North Dakota Department of Health.
- Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture (ECH) at Dakota College at Bottineau helps small to mid-size farmers and gardeners produce organic and specialty vegetables for sale. Some of our clients sell their vegetables direct to customers through farmers' markets, grocery stores and restaurants while others grow vegetables on a larger scale and sell to wholesalers or on commodity markets. Holly Mawby, Director, Hollyrose.Mawby@dakotacollege.edu, 105 Simrall Blvd., Bottineau, ND, 58318
- 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.
- Lori Capouch, Rural Development Director, lcapouch@ndarec.com
- Pat Downs, Cooperative Development Specialist, pdowns@ndarec.com
- Gary Hoffman, Cooperative Development Specialist, ghoffman@ndarec.com
- 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
State Contacts
Dr. Harlene Hatterman-Valenti
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
(701) 231-8536
H.Hatterman.Valenti@ndsu.edu
Chet Hill
Willison Research Extension Center
Williston, ND
(701) 774-4315
chill@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Rudy Radke
NDSU Extension Service
Ag Diversification & High-Value Irrigated Crops Task Force
Fargo, ND
(701) 356-0222
rradke@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Ted Aulich
Energy & Environmental Research Center
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
(701) 777-5000
taulich@undeerc.org
www.undeerc.org
Bruce Gjovig
Center for Innovation – UND
Grand Forks ND
(701) 777-3132
www.innovators.net
