Doug Goehring
What this job does: Leads the state Department of Agriculture, which inspects and regulates farm products and promotes farm exports. The commissioner also sits on the three-member Industrial Commission with the governor and attorney general.
- Current office
- North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner (since 2009)
- Occupation
- Farmer and rancher
- Lives in
- Near Menoken
Background
- Appointed Agriculture Commissioner April 6, 2009; also sits on the three-member Industrial Commission. source: ballotpedia.org
- Third-generation farmer; runs a 2,000-acre farm near Menoken with a son. source: ballotpedia.org
- Former vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau and former chair of Nodak Mutual Insurance Company. source: ballotpedia.org
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- Continue agriculture research, export market development and Industrial Commission programs such as Bank of North Dakota loans; no formal list of second-term priorities source: route-fifty.com
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