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What brought and still brings people to the Red River Valley?
  • Trade and Transportation routes
  • Agriculture
  • Innovation
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Trade and Transportation in the Red River Valley
  • Canoe
  • Oxcart
  • Steamboat
  • Railroad
  • Interstates, Highways
  • Airport
  • Technology
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Agriculture
  • Bonanza Farms, wheat and railroads
  • Homestead Act
  • Sugar Beets
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American Crystal Sugar
  • American Crystal Sugar today is a successful grower-owned cooperative, the nation's largest producer of beet sugar. It pumps millions of dollars into the Red River Valley economy in products and wages.
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Innovation
  • Innovation is the introduction of new ideas, goods, services, and practices which are intended to be useful.
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"In 2002,"
  • In 2002, Senator Byron Dorgan proposed to bring millions of Federal research dollars to the Red River Valley.
  • Using NDSU and UND between Fargo and Grand Forks this area would be called the Research Corridor.
  • Over the past two years alone more than $100 Million of scientific research funding has been directed to UND and NDSU.