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Committee amends and advances bill offering post‑production incentives for in‑state dairy processing
Summary
Senate Bill 2342, amended in committee, rephrases a proposed incentive as a processing (not production) incentive for new dairy processors, changes quantity units and removes a direct $10 million appropriation in favor of a mechanism to seek ad‑fund support. The committee approved the bill as amended (motion: due pass).
The committee amended and voted to advance Senate Bill 2342, a proposal to offer a state incentive to attract or expand dairy processing capacity in North Dakota.
Bill summary and amendment: The original draft described a post‑production incentive tied to milk “production.” Matt Perdue, speaking for the North Dakota Farmers Union, asked the committee to frame the incentive for dairy processing rather than raw milk production. Committee amendments replaced the word “production” with “processing,” changed a volume reference (originally expressed in gallons) to a processing metric (3,000,000 pounds), and removed a direct…
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