Summary — North Dakota SB 2274 (2025) — Farm Management Program
Status: Filed with Secretary of State 04/03/2025; enrolled bill text shows passage by both chambers and transmission to Governor (signed by Governor 04/02/2025 per timeline).
Brief purpose
- Establish a state‑led farm management program within the Department of Agriculture to coordinate farm management offerings across state entities and to create/expand marketing clubs as adjuncts to those programs. Also amends the state board for career and technical education’s duties to support coordination and marketing‑club development. Provides a $1.9 million appropriation for the program for the 2025–2027 biennium.
Key provisions
- New statutory section (chapter 4.1‑01, North Dakota Century Code): directs the Agriculture Commissioner to implement and oversee a farm management program that will:
1. Coordinate new and existing farm management programs offered by any state agency, board, or commission; and
2. Create and expand marketing clubs as adjuncts to those farm management programs.
- Amendment to Section 15‑20.1‑03 (state board for career & technical education):
- Adds explicit board authority/duty to coordinate new and existing farm management programs offered by any state agency or entity; and
- Adds duty to create and expand marketing clubs as adjuncts to those programs.
- Appropriation: $1,900,000 from the general fund to the Agriculture Commissioner for services related to the farm management program for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027.
Who/what is affected
- Department of Agriculture (Commissioner): primary implementing authority and recipient of appropriation.
- State agencies, boards, commissions, and the State Board for Career and Technical Education: required to coordinate programs and may participate in delivered services.
- Farmers and agricultural producers: intended beneficiaries—through coordinated farm management services and marketing clubs that can offer marketing education, risk/price management tools, and pooled marketing strategies.
- Educational and extension entities involved in career/technical agricultural education.
Potential impact and likely uses
- Centralizes coordination of farm management education and services across state entities, reducing duplication and improving access.
- Marketing clubs could help producers improve collective marketing strategies, price risk management, and market access.
- $1.9M provides start‑up/operational funding for program staffing, outreach, technical assistance, and club formation over the 2025–2027 biennium; specific allocations not detailed in statute.
Procedural / timeline notes
- Bill creates and amends specific NDCC sections (new section in ch. 4.1‑01; amends 15‑20.1‑03).
- Appropriation is tied to the 2025–2027 biennium (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2027).
- Enrollment shows Senate passage (yeas 42, nays 2) and House passage (yeas 81, nays 10); recorded as filed with Secretary of State 04/03/2025.
(Prepared from the enrolled bill text and legislative actions provided.)
