News & Events

The Research Technical Staff Award recognizes staff for their distinguished service to the University of Minnesota research community and celebrates exemplary leadership that positively impacted their colleagues and advanced the University's mission. 

On July 16th, the Northwest Research and Outreach Center (NWROC) welcomed over 100 producers and industry professionals to their location near Crookston, MN for the annual Crops & Soils Day. The event showcases recent research in two key areas that are important to the region: sugar beets and small grains. The faculty and staff at NWROC research a variety of questions related to the production of these main regional crops, as well as typical corn and soybean crops.

Since 2011, University Minnesota Extension has conducted a small grains pest and disease field survey in western Minnesota as part of a collaboration with North Dakota State University. This effort has been funded by the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council through wheat check-off dollars to inform producers and the research community of the presence of disease and pests.

In late July, the reported weather data on NWROC’s website modernized thanks to a new weather station from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). The NWROC joined several other ROCs in partnering with the MDA to join and collect data for the Minnesota Ag Weather Network (MAWN). This project upgrades the ROCs’ current weather stations with advanced technology that is standardized across the MDA’s network and provides current weather updates every 15 minutes.