Value Added Agriculture Assistance

IBID helps North Dakota businesses improve their competitiveness by providing free technical assistance and information, on a confidential basis, to help resolve specific technical questions or needs that can be addressed within a limited amount of time. IBID in close cooperation with the College of Agriculture, the College of Engineering, and Northern Crops Institute, can help you with questions regarding processing, processing equipment, plant layout and design, material process flow, quality control, etc.

Typical Questions

• Do you have any milling facilities available to make some short production runs for test marketing a product we are developing?
• We need to modify an existing piece of processing equipment to fit our needs. Can your engineers assists us in these modifications?
• Can you help us determine the profile of the dry edible bean market?
• What is the most efficient machinery layout for our facility?
• What is the feasibility of establishing a vegetable processing facility?

What We Will Do

North Dakota State University is a Land Grant University with a wide range of resources in the agriculture area. Whether you need access to milling facilities and equipment, laboratory services or just want to visit about a technical issue with one of our researchers IBID can help you make the connection. IBID assistance will be prompt and one-on-one. All proprietary information will be held confidential. After we provide the assistance, we will send you a brief evaluation survey to determine your satisfaction and the economic impact of our assistance.

Cost

Initial interviews and services are provided without charge. If the project requires major research or investment, a cost proposal will be prepared. Agreement on cost will be made before extended services are provided. If information is located from a source which charges a fee, we will provide you with information on how to purchase the information.