North Dakota expands ag relief programs to $500 million, adding $100 million

Beans harvested in September 2025 near Hamberg, North Dakota. Photo by Lora Wobbema/For the North Dakota Monitor
Beans harvested in September 2025 near Hamberg, North Dakota. Photo by Lora Wobbema/For the North Dakota Monitor

By Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor North Dakota officials are authorizing the Bank of North Dakota to further expand the largest agriculture disaster relief program in the bank’s history.

The North Dakota Industrial Commission agreed last Tuesday to authorize the state-owned bank to allocate an additional $100 million to the 2026 Farm Financial Stability Program, created last fall to help ag pr…