News and Announcements
News
- University of Minnesota introduces new wheat variety
- Soybean Aphid IPM Team Receives 2009 Integrated Pest Management Team Award
- Members needed for Minnesota Organic Advisory Task Force
- Increased State Funding Supports Graduate Student Research
- U of M Awards Rapid Agricultural Response Funds to Combat Bovine TB
- USDA gives green light to U of M containment facility
- Pathogens will be 'locked down' in new U of M quarantine facility
- U of M Awards Rapid Agricultural Response Funds
Announcements
Agricultural Productivity Determines Long-Term Growth in Food Supply
University of Minnesota applied economist Phil Pardey and co-researchers write about the importance of reinvestment in agricultural R&D to ensuring sufficient food for the world in the coming decades. The article appears in a recent issue of Science magazine.Norman Borlaug Fought World Hunger
The University of Minnesota will host a memorial service for Borlaug at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 8, in McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St. S.E., Minneapolis. It is free and open to the public.Food and Agricultural Research Funding Sparks Concerns
Seventy four agricultural deans from the nation's public and land grant universities recently joined together to express concern about the future of federal funding for food and agricultural research. View the NIFA appropriations request and the letter on ag research funding.-
Special 2007 Hatch Funding Allocated
The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station received additional Federal funding from the CSREES for fiscal year 2007. The one time only allotment came as a result of a continuing resolution that disbanded all “earmarked” funded projects nationwide. Some of the money is being used to support the Minnesota research projects that lost their funding through that continuing resolution. Another portion has been dedicated to research infrastructure support.