BISMARCK – The North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board will meet at 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10, at the North Dakota State University AES Greenhouses, 1440 18th St., Fargo.
BISMARCK – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has accepted North Dakota’s plan for protecting endangered species from harmful exposure to pesticides.
BISMARCK – North Dakota’s number one crop – wheat – is the focus of the latest issue of North Dakota Ag Mag, published by the North Dakota Agriculture in the Classroom Council.
MINOT – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (NDDES) have honored a Minot animal shelter and four Minot residents for leading the effort to shelter pets during the 2011 Mouse River flood.
BISMARCK –Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is encouraging North Dakota commercial feed manufacturers and fertilizer distributors to make sure that their annual tonnage reports have been received by the North Dakota Department of Agriculture by Jan. 31.
Dr. Jesse Vollmer, assistant state veterinarian, and Greg Wilz, deputy director of the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services, will present certificates of commendation to people involved with the emergency sheltering of pets during the 2011 Mouse River flood.
The presentation will be at 11:45 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Norsk Room on the upper level of the State Fair Center in Minot.
BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has scheduled two listening sessions to gather public comment on priorities for the 2012 USDA Specialty Crop Grant Program and to provide information about the program’s application process.
BISMARCK – Agri-tourism, social media, and farm-to-school programs are on the agenda at the eighth annual Dakota Grown, a two-day conference on producing, marketing and processing locally grown foods and food products.
BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has presented the 2012 Commissioner’s Weed Control Partner Award to Leon Pederson, Langdon, Cavalier County weed officer.
