Most custom rates have increased 10 to 20 percent from the previous survey conducted in 2007.

["Since 1994, North Dakota has ranked among the top nine states with the highest multiple job-holding rates in the nation.", ""]

The popular revenue protection policy has a “revenue guarantee,” however a producer’s actual revenue can be and often is less.

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

The largest industry in 2007, in terms of the number of firms owned by American Indians and Alaska natives, was health care and social assistance.

Some farmers can't get to their fields becase of washed-out roads.

The question is whether to plant the crop and accept the risk of lower yields and reduced crop insurance coverage or to collect a prevented-planting crop ...

Unlike prevented planting insurance, which is calculated crop by crop, the SURE payment is triggered at the whole-farm level.

The program compares prevented planting with growing either the same crop for which a prevented planting payment could be received or some other crop.