The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has approved more than $1.6 million for farm, food and value-added agriculture projects. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced the awards Wednesday.
The larger share comes through the Agriculture Diversification and Development Fund, with $1.33 million dollars approved for eight projects. Those include pasta manufacturing equipment, sow farm facilities, cattle-feeding expansions, a new production facility for Sandy’s Donuts and animal-processing upgrades.
A second round of funding comes through the Agricultural Products Utilization Commission. That program approved just over $340,000 for six projects, including meat processing equipment, agritourism construction, dry bean inoculant development, crop inoculant research at NDSU, marketing work and a digital platform for value-added ag exports.
Applications for the next ADD and APUC meetings are due July 1st.
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