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BISMARCK – The State Board of Animal Health will meet at 9 a.m., Wednesday, June 10, in the Brynhild Haugland room on the ground floor of the State Capitol.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC) awards for eight projects. The requests totaling $288,187 were approved at the APUC quarterly meeting May 21 in Bismarck.

BISMARCK – The United States Department of Agriculture has released details for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). CFAP will assist agricultural producers who have suffered a five percent-or-greater price decline from mid-January 2020 to mid-April 2020 or who had losses due to market supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 and face additional significant market costs.

BISMARCK – This week is Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week in North Dakota.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is reminding agribusinesses that there are programs to assist if they have experienced a negative economic impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BISMARCK – Agricultural producers with losses due to price and supply chain impacts caused by COVID-19 should consider gathering information in preparation for the opening of applications in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).

The North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission will meet at 8 a.m., Thursday, May 21 in the Lamborn Room at the Ramkota Hotel, 800 S. 3rd St., Bismarck, ND.

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced a new program to provide cost-share assistance to North Dakota meat processing plants. The North Dakota Meat Processing Plant Cost-Share Program will help state-inspected and custom exempt meat processing plants upgrade their facilities and equipment to meet increased demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BISMARCK – Private restricted-use pesticide certification is available online.

BISMARCK – North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has been appointed trustee in the C&F Foods Inc. d/b/a Turtle River Bean Company of Manvel, ND grain insolvency proceedings.