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VALLEY CITY, N.D. — A company that plans to build a $1.7 billion fertilizer production plant in Grand Forks, N.D., is expanding its seed capital — or shareholder — drive to include farmers and others in the region, and beyond. Darin Anderson, a Valley City, N.D., farmer and chairman of Read more…

September 25, 2013: Plans for North Dakota’s first Fertilizer plant are moving forward. As of today, Northern Plains Nitrogen offers growers and other interested parties the opportunity to invest directly in the $1.7 billion project located in Grand Forks. The plant, which is slated to begin operation in 2017, will Read more…

A group planning a 1.5 billion dollar nitrogen fertilizer plant is in the process of buying a site. Northern Plains Nitrogen CEO Don Pottinger says the company is buying land next to Grand Forks’ municipal sewage lagoons. There is a reason that the company wants to build so close to Read more…

Domestic nitrogen production is vital to the future of American agriculture. Supply constraints in Trinidad & Tobago, Middle Eastern unrest, FSU natgas curtailments and a Corn Belt that demands anhydrous ammonia along with a host of other supply/demand factors suggest domestic nitrogen — anhydrous in particular — could be a Read more…

Two organizations are proposing to build nitrogen fertilizer plants in North Dakota. Northern Plains Nitrogen announced last month that it hopes to build a $1.5 billion facility near the northeast North Dakota city of Grand Forks. Last summer, the North Dakota Corn Growers Association said it would like to build Read more…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The selection of 320 acres northwest of Grand Forks as the site of a proposed $1.5 billion fertilizer production plant came down to plentiful land and water, said developers, announcing the project Thursday. “I do drool over that site. It’s as good as it gets,” said Read more…

Dalrymple Applauds Northern Plains Nitrogen’s Plans to Build a $1.5 Billion Fertilizer Plant Near Grand Forks BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today joined Grand Forks Mayor Michael Brown, the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation, and officials from Northern Plains Nitrogen to announce the company’s plans to build a Read more…