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United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks to reporters in Santa Fe, N.M., on June 23, 2025. (Photo by Julia Goldberg/ Source NM)

As USDA announces plans to repeal ‘roadless’ rule, ND has 250,000 acres that could be affected

By: Patrick Lohmann and Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced this week that her agency intends to repeal a 24-year-old rule that prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 91,000 square miles of federal Forest Service land. Rollins, speaking Monday at the Western Governors’ Association meeting in New Mexico, said […]
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June 28, 2025
Soybeans grow in a field near Casselton, North Dakota on Aug. 7, 2024. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

Soybean market changing for North Dakota farmers but China and tariffs still loom large

By: Jeff Beach (ND 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 paid out $23 billion in relief to farmers who suffered a loss of trade […]
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May 19, 2025

North Dakota farmers feeling effects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health kick

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to “Make America Healthy Again” is making some North Dakota farmers queasy.  Kennedy’s MAHA movement shuns highly processed foods and dyes. But it also includes an attack on oils made from seeds such as sunflowers and canola, with North Dakota […]
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April 28, 2025
A sprayer rolls across a field of soybeans in Burleigh County, North Dakota, on July 11, 2024. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

North Dakota’s pesticide protection law a first for the US

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) North Dakota is poised to be the first state in the nation to implement a law that provides legal protections for pesticide manufacturers — an issue that has been debated in legislatures across the country in the face of large payouts to cancer victims.  Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Wednesday signed House […]
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April 24, 2025
Neal Pulskamp, right, and Cindy Pulkskamp, listen to a presentation on Riverview Dairy in Hillsboro, N.D., on April 3, 2025. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

Comment period opens on proposed 25,000-cow dairy’s environmental permit 

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Anyone with concerns about handling the manure from 25,000 cows or other issues associated with what could become North Dakota’s largest dairy are now able to submit comments to the state.  The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality opened a comment period Friday on the proposed Traill County facility to […]
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April 21, 2025

Pesticide cancer claims at issue in bill headed for North Dakota Senate vote

By: Jeff Beach(ND Monitor) North Dakota legislators have been wrestling with a pesticide bill backed by agricultural groups that would make it harder for people to win cancer liability lawsuits against the farm chemical industry.  House Bill 1318 would shield the maker of Roundup and other farm chemical manufacturers from lawsuits from people who say they […]
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April 12, 2025
Rebecca Phillips of Ecological Insights, shown in July 2024 in Burleigh County, conducts agriculture research in North Dakota but is awaiting federal payments on some of her work. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

Agriculture research loses momentum with federal payments uncertain

By: Jeff Beach (North Dakota Monitor) A North Dakota ag and conservation researcher is unsure if she will be able to complete some projects  — or start new ones — because of delays in federal payments.  “Because they can’t assure me I’m going to get paid, I have to stop work,” Rebecca Phillips told the […]
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March 24, 2025

The Story of Guardian Nets with Noah Schmidt

Listen to the incredible story of Noah Schmidt as he started Guardian Nets a new way of protecting your cargo when you are traveling in your truck or other commercial vehicle. From idea to manufacturing to sales, Noah has figured it out. Check it out!
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October 5, 2024

Delayed farm bill punted until after election with Congress stuck on how to pay for it

By: Allison Winter (North Dakota Monitor) WASHINGTON — Sweeping legislation that would set food and farm policy for the next five years is in limbo, waiting for lawmakers to decide its fate after the election. The latest deadline for the farm bill passed unceremoniously at midnight on Sept. 30, without a push from lawmakers to […]
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October 2, 2024

Legacy Fund in-state investment program poses tricky transparency questions

By: Mary Steurer (North Dakota Monitor) Leaders guiding a program to invest state money in North Dakota are puzzling over the best way to share its work with the public in a sector where too much transparency can scare off business partners. The Growth Fund, established in 2021, has two main goals: to make money […]
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August 5, 2024
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