Description

In 2021, the North Dakota Legislature approved $70 million for the completion of a new combined NDSU agriculture facility and authorized an additional $15 million in fundraising to expand and enhance research and teaching capacity at NDSU. Located on the southwest corner of NDSU’s campus, the Peltier Complex is a state-of-the-art facility supporting research involving food science, meat science, muscle biology, food safety, nutrition, consumer sensory traits and the development of new agricultural products. The complex brings together NDSU’s food science, meat science and cereal science laboratories along with the Northern Crops Institute, a four-state-focused agency committed to promoting, developing and marketing crops grown in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana. The complex is named after the Peltier family, one of the region’s most longstanding supporters of teaching, research and extension in agriculture, who gave a naming rights gift to support the private fundraising portion of the project.