It is best to try to spread out income and expenses so you don’t have abnormally high or low income or expenses in any one year.

Farm and ranch women can learn more about farm recordkeeping, marketing and farm family communication.

Population projections for North Dakota indicate that the number of people age 65 and older will grow significantly by 2020.

North Dakota likely will see a significant increase in Social Security income.

The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker in North Dakota was $1,085 in 2009.

Population projections suggest that the number of people 65 and older will increase by 60 percent from 2007 to the year 2020.

Estimates show that there will be an increase of more than 10,000 acres of cropland lost to Devils Lake in 2014.