Extension Highlights

The Association of Minnesota Counties (AMC) honored two Minnesota 4-H projects for their contributions and service to communities. These projects, driven by youth across Minnesota, truly make a big difference and respond to real community needs in the state.   

Sixteen years ago, Wendy Wustenberg’s daughter, Lauren, and her mother, the late Ruth Wiberg, created a University of Minnesota Extension 4-H project using wool from rare Leicester Longwool sheep the family raises at Windswept Hill Farm, in Farmington, Minn. The first round of wool angels were Lauren’s 4-H demonstration project for the Dakota County Fair when she was 10 years old. 

Charlie Otto, Gabe Otto and Simon Otto, all of Wright County, and Jessica Waldren, of Sherburne County, placed fourth in Avian Bowl in Louisville, Kentucky.

Congratulations to Bob and Laurie Balgeman from Mower County. They have been chosen as University of Minnesota Extension's 4-H Salute to Excellence Outstanding Lifetime Volunteers.

It’s a question many spectators at a show wonder. For Roseau County 4-H member, Alexa Kihle, showing livestock is a family affair. Going all the way back to the 1940s, when her great-grandmother showed cattle with 4-H in Nebraska.

The Minnesota Corn Growers Association has been a faithful supporter of University of Minnesota Extension education for more than 25 years. In 2018, they helped Extension re-envision 4-H Agronomy, Crops, & Soils with the goal of building Minnesota's next generation of agri-scientists.

Watch and listen as Flavia Correa and Carrie Warmka play a song titled Habanera Gris.

On Oct. 8, Jim Kemp received the National Life Member Award for volunteerism in Columbus, Ohio, given to him by the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA).

4-H'ers Isaac Dubois, a native of Mora in Kanabec County, and Eleanor Weckwerth, a native of Dassel in Meeker County, were crowned as the ninth annual Poultry Prince and Princess.