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The North Dakota Department of Agriculture is a part of the government of the U.S. state of North Dakota.The department fosters a healthy economic, environmental, and social climate for agriculture and the rural community through leadership, advocacy, education, regulation and other services.
The office is a high-profile position, as agriculture is key to the state economy. The commissioner of agriculture is also a member of the North Dakota Industrial Commission, a three-member panel that oversees North Dakota's state-owned enterprises and also includes the governor and attorney general.
The following is a list of agriculture commissioners of North Dakota since 1966 when the office was established. Prior to 1966, the office was combined with the labor commissioner and was called the commissioner of agriculture and labor. The holders of that office can be found at the list of North Dakota commissioners of agriculture and labor.
A new case of cattle anthrax has been confirmed in southwest North Dakota's Grant County, bringing the number of cases in the state to 25 this year, according to state agriculture officials. While ...
The 2022 North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner election was held on 8 November 2022 in order to elect the Agriculture commissioner of North Dakota. Incumbent Republican Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring was re-elected to a fourth term against North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party challenger Fintan L. Dooley.
Roger Johnson is past president of the National Farmers Union, and the immediate past North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner. [1] He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party. As of 2021, he is the most recent statewide elected Democrat to serve in the North Dakota state government.
H. Kent Jones (April 26, 1926 – December 17, 1995) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture from 1981 to 1988. He also served as a state legislator in the 42nd through the 46th legislative assemblies. [1]
Doug Goehring is the current North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner.A Republican, he was appointed to the office by Governor John Hoeven on April 6, 2009, to fill the vacancy created when Democratic-NPL incumbent Roger Johnson resigned to become president of the National Farmers Union.