The winning team from this year’s 4-H Science of Agriculture Challenge, which was sponsored by MCGA.

On Tuesday, our friends and partners at the Minnesota Farm Bureau (MFB) sent out a news release celebrating National 4-H Week by highlighting MFB’s strong support for several Minnesota 4-H programs and initiatives. You can read MFB’s news release here.

Here at the Minnesota Corn Growers Association (MCGA), we thought it was such a good idea for Farm Bureau to highlight its support for 4-H that we’re going to, ahem, “borrow” their idea and highlight the many Minnesota 4-H programs and events supported by Minnesota’s corn farmers.

(Hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?)

MCGA is proud to support the following Minnesota 4-H programs and events:

• Minnesota 4-H Purple Ribbon Livestock Auction — MN State Fair Scholarship
• 4-H at the Minnesota State Fair — Pioneer Public TV (The program begins airing on Oct. 8. Details here.)
• 4-H Dairy Showcase at the MN State Fair
• Minnesota 4-H Science of Agriculture Challenge program
• National Association of Extension 4-H Agents — National Conference
• The Minnesota 4-H Foundation Annual Golf Classic
• Local county corn and soybean grower organizations sponsor numerous events and programs at the local level

On behalf of Minnesota’s corn farmers, THANK YOU to the youth leaders, 4-H agents, partner organizations and everyone else who makes Minnesota 4-H such a great organization. MCGA looks forward to continuing our strong support of Minnesota 4-H, both at the state and local level.

(And thank you to Farm Bureau for giving us the idea for this post. It’s not only important for organization’s like MFB and MCGA to support Minnesota 4-H, it’s also important that we highlight that support and help raise the profile of Minnesota 4-H among our members, the agriculture community, and non-farmers.)