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BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has advised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the North Dakota pesticide disposal program, Project Safe Send, does not have the resources or funding to accept large quantities of chlorpyrifos for disposal, nor the authority to charge for disposal of the product.

BISMARCK – The Local Foods and Pride of Dakota Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, at the Baymont Inn, 2611 Old Red Trail, Mandan, N.D.

BISMARCK, N.D. – A subcommittee of the State Board of Animal Health will meet at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, in the State Capitol Building, Pioneer room.

The North Dakota Honey Bee Research and Promotion Advisory Committee will meet at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 23, via conference call.

BISMARCK – The Noxious Weeds Task Force will meet at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 15, at the Ramada Bismarck Hotel, 1400 E. Interchange Ave., Bismarck, ND.

The North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission will meet at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 16; and 8 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Jamestown Economic Development Center at 120 2^nd St. SE, Jamestown, ND.

The Agriculture Diversification and Development fund committee will meet at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 16, via conference call.

BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Agriculture is hosting a free food safety course for the state’s local food producers. The Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Grower Training Course will be hosted March 3, 2022, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Baymont Inn & Suites in Mandan to coincide with the annual Local Foods & Pride of Dakota Conference, March 4-5, 2022.

BISMARCK, N.D. – The confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 56 hunter-harvested wild waterfowl as part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s ongoing surveillance program in North and South Carolina over the past two weeks is a reminder to poultry owners to increase biosecurity. The strain, a Eurasian H5N1 HPAI, is related to the strain of HPAI that Europe and the Middle East have been fighting in recent months and had not been detected in a wild bird in the United States since 2016.