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Co-op center at Northern basks in its success

State and federal officials with an interest in developing cooperatives were at Montana State University-Northern Tuesday for a special event.

They celebrated a $291,652 grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development agency to the Montana Cooperative Development Center.

"It's a huge day for MCDC," center director Ty Duncan said. "We've got a lot of work to do."

The money will be used to continue the cooperative development center's work, Duncan said. The center was created in 1999, and state Sen. Greg Jergeson worked in the Legislature to get a five-year appropriation of...

 

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