St. Paul — State lawmakers beat the clock Monday night during a special session to pass the final pieces of the state budget, working into the night and into the early morning hours to beat a 7 a.m. Tuesday deadline that could have sent the state into a government shutdown. They went into the special session with 14 bills to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — U.S. Department of Agriculture has released $1 billion in disaster relief for livestock producers impacted by wildfire or drought in 2023 or 2024. The Emergency Livestock Relief Program funding comes as part of the $21 billion in weather-related assistance include in the year-end legislation passed by Congress in December. It’s the first of two assistance programs…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Cindy Schreiber-Beck, a longtime state representative and leader in aviation and agriculture in North Dakota, died Sunday at the age of 70. The Republican was first elected to the House in 2014 and served District 25 in Wahpeton. She was on the agriculture committee and vice-chair of the education committee. Schreiber-Beck continued to operate Tri-State Aviation…
Soybeans grow in a field near Casselton, North Dakota on Aug. 7, 2024. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)CASSELTON, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Soybean grower Jim Thompson said there is no way to replace a customer the size of China, but North Dakota farmers have more options than they did in the 2018 Trump administration trade war. The first Trump administration…
FARGO — North Dakota farmers are fresh off the plane from Washington, D.C. after a weeklong trip asking Congress to pass a farm bill to offset the pressures faced by their industry. As part of it, they want SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, to be preserved, to help American families improve their food-buying power in the face of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Sen. John Hoeven is asking the Ag Secretary to prioritize fully staffing Farm Service Agency field offices. He is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee. Hoeven says it’s important to have staff in place as the USDA application process for weather-based disaster aid will begin in the coming weeks. He thanked Secretary Brooke Rollins for…
WEST FARGO — A new collaboration between NDSU and Bonanzaville is opening up this weekend with three new permanent exhibits, and its creators want to hear from you. NDSU’s Museum Studies students created two of them from artifacts they found within Bonanzaville’s archival collection. They cover Fargo’s frontier origins and the history of Bonanza farms in the region. It’s been…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The Bobcat plant in Gwinner, North Dakota will shut down production for a week over the Memorial Day holiday. The company says the scheduled downtime at certain North American factories is designed to align production with anticipated market projections. Doosan Bobcat has its North American headquarters in West Fargo. In November of 2023, Bobcat confirmed…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — In her first two and a half months since being in office, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins took part in an Agriculture tour. Her first stop took place in the heart of the Red River Valley at NDSU for a roundtable with AG producers and farmers. “We’re talking almost daily about all of this, so you…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is coming to North Dakota to hear directly from producers. Rollins will participate in a roundtable discussion at NDSU on Tuesday morning. She was invited by Sen. John Hoeven who serves as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee. Hoeven says they will talk with local agriculture producers, commodity groups, ag researchers…
