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April 2024 Newsletter

The sugarbeet industry is unique among conventional crops in that not only are sugarbeets produced in a concentrated area – the Red River Valley in eastern North Dakota, western Minnesota and in west-central Minnesota – but they are also processed and marketed in the local production area. This unique structure means most of the economic effects of production, processing and marketing of the final products are captured in the local economies where sugarbeets are produced. Recently NDSU researchers conducted an economic impact assessment of the regional sugarbeet industry to capture the economic significance to the local economies. In this article, Dean Bangsund and Nancy Hodur share some of the findings from the economic impact assessment.

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From July 2022 to July 2023, North Dakota’s population increased by 5,014 people overall. Cass County leads North Dakota counties in population increase (3,649 people) followed by Williams County (1,147 people). Williams County leads North Dakota counties in percent of population growth from 2022 to 2023 (3%). The Williston micropolitan area, which is comprised of Williams County, is also among the five fastest-growing U.S. micropolitan areas during the same period.

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Freshen Up Your Resources.

Volunteers are important community assets, helping to enrich the lives of those they serve and often providing care and services that neither government nor the private sector can afford to provide on their own. 

What percentage of ND residents (age 16 and older) volunteered in the past year?

a)    23 percent

b)    29 percent

c)    34 percent

d)    41 percent

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