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Melissa Wilson with farmer and grad students in front of manure machinery

Melissa Wilson is an Extension soil scientist hired in 2017 with AGREETT funding support. Wilson fills a manure management position that was vacant for more than a decade.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018 Agriculture
Randy Kinney in sheep pen

Local lamb is better than ever, and the improvements are no accident. Travis Hoffman, who has a joint position with University of Minnesota Extension and North Dakota State University Extension, concentrates on ways to improve meat quality.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018 Agriculture
father walking children in small town

Southeast Minnesota is tackling 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.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018 Community

For the past several years, Extension has been part of the University of Minnesota’s fund-raising campaign, “Driven.” The campaign goal of $4 billion is the first to include Extension.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018
boy and girl teach another youth about cooking with fruit

Urban youth learn about growing food and meet people who live on farms. Rural youth learn photography and video skills and meet people who live in cities. Kids raised in the suburbs and in Indian Country discover projects that mean something to them. All of them learn that there are many ways to be a Minnesotan, together in 4-H.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018 Youth
Angie Gupta leads group on bikes

Extension’s Minnesota Master Naturalist volunteers took a 9-mile bike ride near Brainerd to learn about native forest ecosystems, roadside vegetation and invasive species detection and reporting.

Related topics: Source Fall 2018

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