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BISMARCK – Today is National Ag Day, a part of National Ag Week March 21-27, 2021.

BISMARCK – Each spring the Living Ag Classroom travels across North Dakota with more than 5,000 fourth and fifth graders in attendance. While in-person Living Ag Classrooms were not held this spring, the commodity groups, agencies and associations that teach students have put their presentations into an online resource housed on the North Dakota Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture in the Classroom website.

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department and the North Dakota Department of Agriculture are urging pet stores, aquarium owners and plant enthusiasts to take action after invasive zebra mussels were found in moss ball plants in North Dakota and multiple other states.

BISMARCK – The State Board of Animal Health will meet at 9 a.m., Wednesday, March 24, at the North Dakota Heritage Center. Due to the facility’s space limitations, interested members of the public may attend via conference call only.

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced that applications are again being accepted for 2021 Specialty Crop Grants due to additional one-time funding from a COVID-19 stimulus package passed by Congress in late 2020.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced that funding is available for research and promotion of honey bees.

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Agriculture will host Local Foods Community Conversations virtually on Saturday, March 6, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST. The virtual conversations will take the place of the annual in-person local foods conference this year.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC) awards for six projects. The requests totaling $511,298 were approved at the APUC quarterly meeting Feb. 18 in Bismarck.

BERTHOLD – Mema’s Meats in Berthold is the newest North Dakota company operating under the State Meat and Poultry Inspection Program.

The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) Peer Review Panel will meet at 9 a.m., Wednesday, March 10, at the Ramada Bismarck Hotel and Conference Center at 1400 E. Interchange Ave., Bismarck.