The Northern Crops Institute on the NDSU campus recently hired Nick Sinner as program manager.

Sinner has more than 20 years of production agriculture experience and spent more than 15 years in commodity association leadership.

In his new role, Sinner will provide leadership in the development of educational programs to promote northern-grown crops to global grain buyers and food processors. He will work with commodity groups, state and federal government agencies, and private industry. He’ll also participate in outreach efforts at industry meetings and trade shows.

His areas of responsibilities will include barley and malt quality, corn and ethanol procurement, pulse crops and industrial hemp usage.

“I have long admired the work that NCI does for crops grown in this region,” Sinner said. “I hope to use my background in agriculture to further develop new markets for our commodities.”

Prior to being hired as program manager, Sinner was the processing technologist for the institute. He conducted pilot-scale processing and assisted with laboratory analyses on northern-grown crops.