Friday, July 18, 2025

The North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission will meet at 2:30 p.m. MDT, Wednesday, July 23 and continue at 8:30 a.m. MDT, Thursday, July 24 in the Medora Community Center, 465 Pacific Ave., Medora, ND.

 

Agenda

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

2:30 PM             Call to Order

                               

                               Business Meeting

                               Minutes

                               Financials

                               Guidelines & Application Review

                               Eligibility Questions

                               Other Business

3:00 PM             Nome Schoolhouse Inn and Event Center, LLC

Nome, ND – Christi Armbrust                              Nature Based Agri-Tourism 

Total Project: $196,375                                          Request: $157,100

                                                                                                                                              

3:20 PM             Yellowstone River Beef

Williston, ND – Calli Thorne                                 Marketing and Utilization      

Total Project: $103,300                                          Request: $82,475

                                                                              

3:40 PM             Key-Lix of ND, LLC

Dickinson, ND – Jed Archibald                            Marketing and Utilization      

Total Project: $205,830                                          Request: $155,000

 

4:00 PM             Recess

 

Thursday, July 24, 2025

8:30 AM             Gevo Inc.

Richardton, ND – Chris Ryan                               Marketing and Utilization      

Total Project: $443,500                                          Request: $250,000

8:50 AM             North Dakota State University

North Dakota – Xinhua Ji                                         Marketing and Utilization      

Total Project: $102,388                                          Request: $81,910

                                                                                                                                              

9:10 AM             ElectroGrow Inc.

North Dakota – Calvin Liu                                      Prototype and Technology   

Total Project: $1,053,020                                      Request: $680,780

                                                              

9:30 AM             Break

                                                                              

9:50 AM             Premier Technologies LLC

Fargo, ND – Kelly Shipman                                   Prototype and Technology   

Total Project: $312,500                                          Request: $250,000

                                                              

10:10 AM          Greenfield Robotics Corporation

North Dakota – Nandan Kalle                              Prototype and Technology   

Total Project: $812,545                                          Request: $528,154

                                                                              

10:30 AM          Lilac Agriculture, LLC

Fargo, ND – Wyatt Warkenthien                        Prototype and Technology   

Total Project: $592,000                                          Request: $272,000

10:50 AM          Break

11:10 AM          North Dakota State University

North Dakota – Wenhao Dai                                Basic and Applied Research              

Total Project: $43,140                                             Request: $34,512

              

11:30 AM          University of North Dakota

North Dakota – Mariia Goriacheva                   Basic and Applied Research

Total Project: $69,610                                             Request: $55,497

                              

11:50 AM          North Dakota State University

North Dakota – Andriy Voronov                          Basic and Applied Research               Total Project: $119,709                                       Request: $95,767

12:10 PM          Working Lunch             

1:00 PM             Funding Decisions

2:30 PM             Adjourn