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Minnesota’s primary commodity crops are corn, soybeans, sugarbeets, and small grains (spring wheat, barley, oats), generating about $3B. We help the adoption of production practices that increase profitability and reduce economic and environmental risks. About the Program…

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Crops

Small Grains

The Internet resource for growers, a cooperative effort between Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers and Extension.

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Corn Production

Helping Minnesota growers increase productivity and profitability and minimize economic and environmental risks.

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MN Soybean Production

Just for Growers – Keep up to date on soybean issues like spider mites, aphids, seed quality, rust and Soybean Cyst Nematode.

Sugarbeets

Sugarbeets

Minnesota and North Dakota together raise 720,000 acres in beet sugar annually, and collaborate in education and research.

Young corn, conventional tillage

Tillage

Resources on strip tilling, conservation tillage and more for agricultural producers, crop consultants, local government and landowners

Educational Offerings

Targeted Production Clinics and Conferences

  • Hail Adjustors School
  • Soybean College
  • Soils 101 clinics
  • Fertility 201 clinics
  • Small Grains Update

On-Farm Research

  • Conservation Tillage Demonstration Project
  • Red River Valley On-Farm Yield Trials
  • Soybean Production research projects

Contact Information

Primary Contacts by Crop

Jeffrey Coulter
Corn Specialist
Agronomy & Plant Genetics
411 Borlaug Hall
1991 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Email: coult077@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-8700
Fax: 612-625-1268

Seth Naeve
Soybean Specialist
Agronomy & Plant Genetics
211 Hayes Hall
1509 Gortner Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
Email: naeve002@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-4298
Fax: 612-625-1268

Jochum Wiersma
Small Grains Specialist

Agronomy & Plant Genetics
108 Ag Research Ctr
2900 University Ave
Crookston, MN 56716
Email: wiers002@umn.edu
Phone: 218-281-8629
Fax: 218-281-8603

John Lamb
Sugarbeets Specialist
Soil, Water and Climate
439 Borlaug Hall
1991 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Email: johnlamb@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-1772

 

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