The major losses are $57.6 million to the crop sector, $50.9 million to households and $42.9 million to the retail trade sector.

["Out of the 3,141 counties in the nation, Oliver County in west-central North Dakota had the 30th highest average compensation per job ($75,267) in 2009.", ""]

The North Dakota metropolitan counties of Burleigh, Cass, Grand Forks and Morton, along with the western counties of Stark, Ward and Williams, are the largest contributors to growth in housing since 2000.

Encouraging existing customers to buy more is an effective way to increase business sales.

Networking helps home-based business owners form ties with other professionals and create awareness of their company.

A tracking system finds that 63 percent of North Dakota college graduates were either employed in North Dakota or re-enrolled within the state one year after graduation.

As global markets grow and technology changes the way business is done, thoughtful leadership from cooperative business directors and managers is more important than ever.

As the dependency ratio increases, so does potential for concern among communities faced with an older, nonworking population.

NDSU has hired a rural and agribusiness enterprise development specialist.

NDSU’s Kathleen Tweeten has been elected Epsilon Sigma Phi’s north-central region vice president.

The donation will help support the overall mission of the Burdick Center.

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

Net in-migration indicates that North Dakota brought in 25 percent more first-year students to its colleges and universities than it could have generated from North Dakota resident first-year students.

Carol Goodman of Milton is the recipient of this year’s Joseph A. Chapman Leadership Award.

The Rural Leadership North Dakota program’s fourth class is about to start.

North Dakota’s general trend of out-migration has produced long-term economic consequences.

North Dakota’s housing market is showing a slowdown similar to the national market with successive declines in newly authorized homes since 2006.

A sizeable proportion of North Dakota’s increase in 2007 was due to increases in procurement contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and crop insurance payments.

North Dakota’s general trend of out-migration has produced long-term economic consequences.

The Horizons program is helping 15 more communities combat poverty and develop leadership.

Along with studies aimed at growing a better plant, researchers in the North Dakota State University Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics have evaluated switchgrass from an economic point of view.

NDSU awarded an $800,000 grant to further develop and commercialize the technology to produce biobased products.

The overall decline in newly authorized housing units in North Dakota between 2006 and 2007 was largely the result of 103 fewer single-family homes authorized for construction.

NDSU students advance to the semifinals of a national marketing competition.

Rural Leadership North Dakota’s class of 2007-09 wraps up its first year.

NDSU researchers still want the public’s help in finding Juneberry plants that could be the basis for new commercial varieties.

Our basement storeroom and pantry were wading ponds.