Policies were changed over a year ago to encourage the growth of animal agriculture in North Dakota. “We’ve been having such incredible progress with discussions with people who are actually in beef production who are diversifying into pigs or people who have never actually raised livestock before and they want to learn how to get into swine production,” explains Amber Wood, executive director, North Dakota Livestock Alliance.”It’s such an exciting thing to see, the next generation of North Dakota farmers taking on a whole new industry and a whole new life.” Wood also highlights the crop fertility benefits. “That swine manure is just gold.” Wood met with swine integrators during World Pork Expo to promote pork production in North Dakota.
