Vern Thompson
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.
- Occupation
- Runs a trucking business hauling natural gas liquids; former farmer
- Lives in
- Fargo
Background
- Served in the North Dakota House 1989-1990 and the Senate 1997-2000. source: ballotpedia.org
- From Minnewaukan; has lived in Fargo since 2005. source: northdakotamonitor.com
- First sought the Democratic-NPL U.S. House endorsement, lost it to Trygve Hammer, then ran for agriculture commissioner. source: northdakotamonitor.com
In their own words
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- Help farmers through current hardships source: northdakotamonitor.com
- Oppose corporate land purchases source: northdakotamonitor.com
- Questions state spending on the WBI pipeline and Project Tundra loans; raises data center concerns source: route-fifty.com
- A meat processing cooperative in North Dakota source: route-fifty.com
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