The Carrington-to-Turtle Lake rail line serves five agricultural shippers in a four county area in central North Dakota. Service on the line has been affected by recent embargoes, floods, and poor, deteriorating track conditions. The line is a strong candidate for abandonment as efforts to...

This paper describes the important changes that occurred in the U.S. grain handling and transportation system in the period following deregulation in 1980. This system has evolved and will continue to do so in response to technological and institutional changes, competitive pressures, and a...

This report revises to early 1978 the tax and revenue laws of the State of North Dakota described in Agricultural Economics Report No. 117, Department of Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University, December, 1976. The research on which this report is based was conducted for the U.S....

This report on the North Dakota tax system is a by-product of a much broader study of the impacts of increased coal production in the Northern Great Plains. Subsequent research will examine the effects of coal development on state and local financial resources; demands for local government...