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Goals
Marketing
- Work with Busch Ag Resources, Cargill, the North Dakota Barley
Council and others to increase irrigation for malting barley.
- Work with Heartland Feed, Inc., Tioga, to implement a business plan
for irrigated alfalfa production.
- Work with the Commercial Vegetable Growers and provide support for
vegetable industry development.
- Work with stakeholders in the ethanol industry to develop irrigated
corn rotation for ethanol plants.
- Strengthen communication and partnerships with local economic
development authorities.
- Assist the Governor's Office to accomplish effective coordination of
marketing efforts in North Dakota.
Funding & Financing
- Strengthen and enhance the Bank of North Dakota/State Water
Commission Ag Pace irrigation loan program.
- Secure funding for irrigation district projects in North Dakota from
federal and state sources.
- Secure approval for USDA federal loan guarantees for irrigation
projects, high-value production storage and processing facilities.
- Develop other funding sources and financing programs to support and
enhance irrigation development in North Dakota.
Projects
- Work with and assist irrigation districts.
- Establish water supply development.
- Provide irrigation management assistance to irrigators.
- Work with suppliers and dealers on equipment and technology
advances.
- Work to strengthen EQIP opportunities for irrigation in North
Dakota.
- Develop partnerships with other entities for irrigation development
and production.
Research
- Continue funding for research at Oakes, Carrington, Williston and Tappen.
- Establish research priorities.
- Develop research projects and initiatives.
- Coordinate research fundraising, communication of outcomes and other
activities.
- On-farm case studies.
- Deliver research to irrigators in North Dakota.
Affordable Energy
- Develop a database to provide irrigators with energy cost
information and options.
- Secure federal hydropower for first lift water supply.
- Develop information on alternative power sources.
- Develop partnerships with local power distribution entities.
Communication & Coordination
- Networking/coordination
- Irrigation Expo
- Irrigation workshops
- Reference guide
- Irrigation Frontier/North Dakota Water magazine
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