NDSU economist helps sort out biofuel’s future

AgWeek
Published February 23 2010
By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek

FARGO, N.D. — Need some help in deciding what to make into biofuels and what the government should be spending on it?

If you’re a North Dakotan, you’ve hired Cole Gustafson to do some of this thinking for you. Gustafson is North Dakota’s biofuel economist — a position expressly created by the North Dakota Legislature in 2007. Gustafson, who has been at NDSU since 1986, took on this role in 2007.

Gustafson often is on the road, but his office is in the newly refurbished and expanded facility, now known as Barry Hall, in downtown Fargo.

“We’re fostering closer ties to the college of business and are blending with the economics department. We have a dual mission to serve agriculture and to serve businesses broadly, in all economic aspects,” he says.

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