In addition to being the headquarters for the Garrison Diversion Unit, Carrington is destined to become the irrigation center of North Dakota.

The Carrington Irrigation Branch Station, located four miles north of the city, was established by the North Dakota Legislature in 1957 and provides the only irrigation research facility in the state. Valuable information relating to irrigation is obtained from the Station's research work by the North Dakota Agriculture Experiment Station technicians and cooperative projects with the Agricultural Research Service and the Bureau of Reclamation.

As irrigation development expands in North Dakota under the Garrison Diversion Unit and other individual and group projects, the Carrington Irrigation Branch Station will become recognized more and more as the irrigation focal point for the state.

All of the following are organizations.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 231