Research and innovation was the focus of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee’s hearing at the Grand Farm Innovation Campus outside of Casselton Thursday. North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said good things can happen when the entire ag sector works together. “The federal government facilitated some of these transactions to get public and private entities together, such as Grand Farm; ARS, the ag research arm of USDA and NDSU together. You can develop a really good project like Grand Farm, which is doing a lot for research.” Goehring pointed to newer technologies such as biosensors and their current impact on farm production.
