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BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring today issued guidance for ag-related businesses to ensure continuation of the food supply chain, while maintaining a healthy workforce. “The role of agriculture is clear,” Goehring said. “Ag-related businesses are critical and essential to providing for our most basic needs. I encourage producers to take the proper precautions and mitigate risk to ensure their operations continue to run smoothly.” The guidance documents issued include best practices to protect against COVID-19 and recommendations for:

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced that two grants have been awarded totaling $126,000 to foster the growth of the bioscience industry in North Dakota.

BISMARCK, N.D. – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced revisions to the interactive local foods map to help consumers more easily find local foods in North Dakota. The revisions include identifying specific products such as fruits and vegetables, eggs, beef, poultry, pork, other meats, pickles, jams, jellies, honey, baked goods, and orchards.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is providing letters to critical and essential agriculture businesses for verification purposes in response to requests for being identified as such.

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Bioscience Innovation Grant Fund Committee will meet at 9 a.m. CST, Wednesday, April 22, via conference call.

BISMARCK - The Grape and Wine Advisory Committee will meet at 12 p.m. CST, Monday, April 20, via conference call.

BISMARCK – Gov. Doug Burgum has issued an executive order that suspends the April 1, 2020, expiration of commercial, public and private pesticide applicator certifications under North Dakota Century Code § 4.1-33 for the duration of the declared state of public health emergency.

BISMARCK - The Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board will meet at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 29, via conference call.

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Organic Advisory Board will meet at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16, via conference call.

BISMARCK – While agriculture and food have been deemed essential industries by the Department of Homeland Security, agriculture-related activities and events that are not essential to the process of producing food and feed should be canceled or postponed to a later date.