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America's farmers can support local school district with $2,500 donation

$160,000 invested toward education in Minn. through the Monsanto Fund

Elementary and high schools in 26 states currently receive less state funding in the 2012-13 school year in comparison to last year's numbers. In 35 states, school funding now stands below 2008 levels, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But thanks to the generosity of farmers through America's Farmers Grow CommunitiesSM, $555,000 was donated to schools nationwide in 2012.

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Dairy Farm Safety Short Courses


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Minnesota state forest nurseries announce seedling sale

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) state forest nurseries are gearing up for their spring seedling sale.

Millions of seedlings are available for the 2013 planting season, including 20 species of native bareroot trees and shrubs grown from seeds collected in Minnesota. Seedlings vary in size from
6 to 18 inches in height.


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Minnesota farmers help USDA conservation program

Reaches 50 million-acre mark

NRCS celebrates success of 4-year-sld conservation stewardship program

In just four years, America’s top conservationists have enrolled
50 million acres in USDA’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), a program that helps farmers, ranchers and forest landowners take conservation to the next level.


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Agriculturalists taking the heat - Fiscal Cliff becoming the Dairy Cliff

We’ve all heard in the news about the “Fiscal Cliff” that is implicating the economy. But people don’t realize that the fiscal cliff dilemma is detracting from the farm bill getting passed. Right now, the farm bill is expired; if this bill doesn’t get passed, our unstable economy will face an increase in food prices that we cannot afford.

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