Fedorchak to visit Jamestown, tour new Bison Machinery site

A new 36,000-square-foot farm-equipment headquarters on Jamestown’s southwest edge became the focus of U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak’s stop in Stutsman County, placing agriculture, business expansion and federal policy in the same room.

Fedorchak toured Bison Machinery, the family-owned and operated business that opened in 1974 and recently moved from Central Sales Inc. to its new site at 1700 20th St. SW, west of Menards and east of the Anne Carlsen Center. The company marked the relocation with a ribbon cutting on May 7, a public sign that its Jamestown footprint has grown alongside the local farm economy it serves.

The new location along I-94 was built for scale. The shop includes overhead cranes, vertical parts storage, wash bays, a showroom, meeting rooms and a customer training space, giving the business room not only to service machinery but also to host customers and train operators. A 150-foot flagpole topped with a 30-by-60-foot American flag now rises over the site, making the new facility one of the more visible additions to Jamestown’s business landscape.

For Fedorchak, the visit fit with the priorities she has emphasized since winning North Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat in November 2024. In her early months in Congress and during recent state work periods, she has framed her agenda around agriculture, business growth, energy and infrastructure, issues that land directly in Stutsman County where farm equipment, trucking access and service capacity still matter to local employers and producers.

Jamestown has also been part of her regular constituent outreach. Her office previously held mobile office hours at the Jamestown Civic Center for Stutsman County on Jan. 20 and at Alfred Dickey Public Library in December 2025, giving residents another avenue to raise problems tied to federal agencies, agricultural programs and small-business concerns.

The city’s identity adds another layer to the stop. Jamestown’s business base includes equipment suppliers tied to the region’s farms, while its public image is shaped in part by the North American Bison Discovery Center and the World’s Largest Buffalo monument. That mix of agriculture, machinery and bison-themed tourism made Bison Machinery a fitting backdrop for Fedorchak’s Jamestown visit, where the practical realities of rural business growth were on full display.