Expanding Value-Added Agriculture in ND

A pair of bills designed to expand value-added agriculture is moving through the North Dakota Legislature. “What we’re doing with both the potato processing plant as well as the milk processing plant is putting an incentive out there that this is the need we have in this state,” says State Senator Paul Thomas. “With increased cows and increased milk production, we hope to incentivize the processing industry to be expanded along with those cows and be able to capture the value added that would come from that.” Both SB2342, which targets the milk processing industry, and House Bill 1332, which targets the potato processing industry, passed the first round of voting and will move to the other chamber after Crossover.