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BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says farmers, ranchers, pesticide dealers and applicators, government agencies and homeowners should bring any unusable pesticides to any of the eight Project Safe Send collections in July.

BISMARCK, N.D. – The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) goes into effect today.

BISMARCK – Field days have been scheduled at multiple North Dakota sites to collect and redistribute flea beetles that eat leafy spurge.

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Meat Processing Plant Cost-Share Program, initiated earlier this year to provide cost-share assistance to North Dakota meat processing plants, is getting more funding after the state Emergency Commission unanimously approved an additional $2.7 million for the program last week with funding from the coronavirus relief bill.

BISMARCK – Proposals are being sought that support biotechnology innovation and commercialization, promote the creation of bioscience jobs in the state, and promote bioscience research and development in North Dakota in the area of coronavirus research.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has awarded grants totaling more than $65,000 for four large-project orchard and garden grants.

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Bioscience Innovation Grant Fund Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, June 25, 2020 in the North Dakota Department of Agriculture’s 6th floor conference room at the State Capitol building.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring issued the following statement following the appointment of North Dakota Grain Growers Association President Dennis Haugen to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC) by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler:

BISMARCK – Beekeepers have started moving beehives into the state and are reminded to get landowner permission and register their hive locations with the North Dakota Department of Agriculture.

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) has received notification from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they have ordered the cancellation of the registrations for Xtendimax, FeXapan and Engenia, products used in over-the-top applications on Dicamba-tolerant soybeans.