Awardee Bios

Growing up on the family farm and ranch near Richardton, North Dakota, inspired a life-long passion for learning, production agriculture, and people development in Steve Bobb ’82, the 2024 NDSU Harvest Bowl Agribusiness Award recipient.

Growing up on the family farm near Walum, North Dakota, inspired a life-long love of agriculture and public service for Dan Wogsland, the 2023 NDSU Harvest Bowl Agribusiness Award recipient.

The North Dakota State University Foundation has announced the establishment of a Livestock Evaluation Faculty Fund endowment thanks to a lead gift of $1 million from a benefactor couple to support the department of animal science at NDSU.

Eddie Bernhardson ’60, ’76, the fifth of eight children, was born in Comstock, Minnesota, in 1928. He grew up during the Great Depression and remembers lean times on the family farm. He recalls a friend saying, “Everybody was poor, but none of us knew it.”

Bill Bowman In the mid-1960s, Bill Bowman was 20 years old and serving in the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Hawaii awaiting deployment to Vietnam. “I decided I was

Sharon Anderson Dr. Sharon Anderson was raised on a family farm near Kindred in rural Richland County. Her first experience with the land grant system was when she joined 4-H

Jack Dalrymple Jack Dalrymple grew up near Casselton, on the family farm which was established in 1875 as North Dakota’s first large-scale wheat farm. He graduated with honors from Yale

David Berg David Berg grew up in Fargo, within one block of the NDSU main campus. Both of his parents worked on the campus, and Berg remembers crawling under the

Lynden Johnson Lynden Johnson is a highly respected and active leader in North Dakota agriculture. As the executive vice president of CHS Country Operations, a Fortune 100 company, he leads

Jerry Doan Jerry Doan is a respected leader and advocate for North Dakota agriculture. He has spent countless hours at the North Dakota Legislature and U.S. Congress to help spread