Extension Highlights

Positive stories about personal, even sacred, connections to water can inspire others to take action.

Extension RSDP helps community member explore short, small fences to keep out deer.

The University of Minnesota’s Biosecure Entry and Education Trailer traveled more than 1,800 miles across Minnesota in June, bringing biosecurity education to 230 4-H livestock exhibitors at six locations in the state.

“I want to continue to expose teenagers to leadership opportunities, whether they live outside Hutchinson or in downtown Minneapolis.”

Finn credits 4-H with growing strong relationships with his peers, while allowing him to be his true self.

Ashok Chanda believes “seeing is believing,” so he teaches about sugar beet diseases by showing instead of just telling.

Thirty residents from Northwest and West Central Minnesota graduated from Emerging Leaders Program this spring.

The U is training volunteers to identify and prevent the spread of invasive species.

Fusarium head blight is a fungal disease that affects small grains such as wheat, barley, oats and rye.

“I like to reach out to people who don’t have accurate information about science and agriculture, because there were a lot of things I didn’t understand before either,”