Who We Are

ANDA serves as the unified voice for North Dakota’s commercial agribusiness sector, supporting member success through advocacy of fair trade, sound policy, and industry expansion. We represent and further the interests of cooperative associations and independent concerns of North Dakota, engaged in the handling, supplying, processing, marketing, storage, and distribution of grain, seed, chemical, fertilizer, equipment, agronomy products, and other like commodities.

North Dakota Agricultural Association (NDAA)

The roots of the North Dakota Agricultural Association began in the early 1960’s when the North Dakota Plant Food Association, the North Dakota Agricultural Chemicals Association, and the North Dakota Seed Trade Association were formed as separate entities representing the fertilizer (and fertilizer equipment), chemical, and seed industries in North Dakota. In 1970 the three groups merged and became the North Dakota Agricultural Association which represented wholesalers, suppliers, retailers, and dealers of agricultural seeds, chemicals, fertilizers and related equipment and services until the merger with NDGDA.

North Dakota Grain Dealers Association (NDGDA)

The beginning of the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association is traced to May 23, 1911, when a group of elevators met in Devils Lake. During that meeting, the fledging organization assumed the name of “Farmers Grain Dealers Association of North Dakota.” An immediate priority of the new association was the establishment of more-uniform and accurate bookkeeping systems among the state’s farmers elevators. The Association held its first official annual convention in Valley City in March of 1912. Along with a recommendation to adopt the national elevator accounting system. In the mid-1970s its name was substituted with the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association which it went by until its merger with NDAA.