University of Minnesota Extension: Working with corn farmers for more than 100 years
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One-hundred years ago today, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which allocated funding for outreach activities to expand vocational, agricultural, and home demonstration programs in rural America at Land Grant Universities throughout the United States.


A new movie about life on the farm that features a young farm family in Southwest Minnesota opens at select theaters in Minnesota today.
Mother Nature hit corn farmers with a left hook in the form of a winter that would never end. Now she’s delivering an uppercut with day after day of rain and more cold temperatures.