Agriculture contributes $31 billion to the North Dakota economy. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum says the NDSU study highlighted the need for more animal agriculture. “There’s one thing missing in North Dakota compared to Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa and that’s animal agriculture,” Burgum said. “We’ve got a lot of red tape and corporate farming laws that we need to overcome before animal agriculture can expand.” Burgum said value-added agriculture could bring more animal agriculture to the state. “If the market hadn’t shifted to soybean oil, we wouldn’t have soybean processing plants in North Dakota. Now we’ve got two plants, we’re very close to almost having three and wherever we see a processing plant going in, we need to ask what are the animal agriculture opportunities we can gain from this?”
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