North Dakota: Goehring announces ADD awards funding

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has introduced Agricultural Diversification and Improvement (ADD) Fund awards for 3 initiatives. The awards totaling $750,000 had been authorized on the ADD quarterly assembly Might 19 in Watford Metropolis.

The ADD Fund is run by the North Dakota Division of Agriculture in affiliation with the Financial institution of North Dakota. The fund was created to help new or increasing value-added-agriculture companies that exhibit monetary feasibility, improve profitability for farmers and ranchers, create jobs and develop North Dakota’s economic system. Kinds of initiatives eligible for the fund embrace however should not restricted to: meals manufacturing and processing amenities, feed or pet meals processing amenities, commodity processing amenities, agriculture product manufacturing and animal manufacturing amenities.

The next obtained approval:

* Yellowstone River Beef Inc. was awarded $250,000 to help with the continued growth of Yellowstone River Beef in Williston. Contact Trevor Abell at 971-241-1167.

* GP Turnkey Tharaldson, LLC was awarded $250,000 for tools wanted to supply higher-value proteins and corn oil on the Tharaldson Ethanol facility. Contact Ryan Thorpe at 701-347-3318.

* Agassiz Sustainable LLC was awarded $250,000 for a wheat pulping facility close to Hillsboro. Contact Hua Solar at 763-706-7078.

* ADD will maintain its subsequent grant utility listening to on July 20-21, 2022, in Bottineau. Purposes for the July assembly should be obtained by July 1, 2022.

* For extra info, please go to https://bnd.nd.gov/ag/agriculture-diversification-and-development-fund/.