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Bismarck, N.D. (AP) A group that funds developers of North Dakota farm products is giving money to eight projects.

The quarterly grants from the Agricultural Products Utilization Commission, a state Commerce Department program better known as APUC, total nearly $254,0000.

The largest grant, $76,000, is going to a large-scale dairy being developed in the Edgeley area.

Other projects getting money include a Regent onion company, a Cogswell potato venture and a Kindred raspberry operation.

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