• Strategic planning sessions, focus meetings and board retreats

• Advocacy leadership for family farm agriculture

• Cooperative director, manager and employee training

• Legislative representation on the state and national level

• Cooperative promotion and publicity on a local, state and national level

• A voice in federal regulatory proposals

• Consumer education on a local, state and national level

• Policy development and research

• Cooperative services (printing brochures, newsletters, posters, forms, envelopes, business cards, more)

• Ag information through the North Dakota Union Farmer, NFU News and NDFU legislative newsletter

• Audit presentations

• New generation co-op development

• Informational meetings

• Young Producer events

• Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives at NDSU

• Educational bus trips to state and regional cooperative facilities

• North Dakota Farmers Union summer camping program (grades 3-12)

• Development of hands-on “Co-op Convenience Store” at every camp

• Cooperative-themed projects

• Enhanced leadership skills

• Local day classes and activities on cooperative education (grades 1-12)

• Award trips and recognition for youth

• Adult education and training on cooperatives and leadership

• Strong support for rural communities
  

This is all made possible through the partnership between North Dakota Farmers Union and the local cooperatives that honor the five percent contribution to education and the dues check off, put in place by the founding members of each cooperative in order to support the continued success of agriculture and cooperatives in North Dakota.