Today's most pressing issues cross state and world boundaries, requiring strong partnerships, focused investments and diverse perspectives from multiple disciplines.
Extension researchers and educators engage individuals and organizations in asking the challenging questions to discover science-based answers that make a difference.
This year, you might want to create an entirely local Thanksgiving feast, starting with the turkey, of course. Minnesota leads the nation in turkey production. Extension has been collaborating with the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association since 1939.
Today nearly half of all Minnesota’s 65,000 4-H participants live in suburbs and cities, growing stronger right along with rural and tribal 4-H youth. All of them learn that there are many ways to be a Minnesotan, together in 4-H.
Why are there food deserts in the heart of some of the most productive farm country in the world? That’s a good question. Through the one-of-a-kind rural Minnesota Backhaul Project, U of M Extension RSDP’s Kathy Draeger is connecting rural grocers and farmers to bring new sources of fresh food to Greater Minnesota.
Minnesota is taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to the region’s workforce shortage. University of Minnesota Extension supports those efforts in many ways, including managing Making it Home initiatives in regional small towns like Spring Valley.
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