BISMARCK - North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has authorized special funding to provide market reporting of North Dakota livestock in West Fargo.
Budget constraints forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture Marketing Service in Sioux Falls, S.D., to discontinue reporting at two of the five livestock auction markets in North Dakota.
Goehring has found enough money in the North Dakota Department of Agriculture budget to resume reporting in the West Fargo market on behalf of AMS, which will continue livestock market reports at Napoleon, Dickinson and Mandan. The federal agency has stopped reporting at Jamestown.
Goehring said his agency will contract with trained personnel to conduct the reports in West Fargo through Feb. 1. He will reassess the situation early next year to consider funding options.
