Due to the rising cost of natural gas and increased production costs to secure essential materials, the cost of fertilizer has skyrocketed around the world, leading to higher production costs…
By: Dan Lemke When Land O’Lakes announced in 1988 that it would be closing its turkey processing plant in Thief River Falls, Minn. at the end of the year, growers…
In March, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) hosted the fourth annual News Uses Forum in partnership with Compeer Financial and Georgetown University’s Rural Opportunity Initiative. The conference explored the…
Across the United States and around the world, there is a growing focus on renewable energy—energy collected from sources that can be more quickly replenished. Driving this trend is a…
AURI Connects: Fields of Innovation Innovator Profiles is a Q&A series with Minnesota entrepreneurs who have partnered with AURI to build capacity and successfully commercialize new and emerging crops. Q&A…
On May 18, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) and the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) Forever Green program hosted a unique field day at AURI’s facilities in Waseca, Minn. The…
In this episode, discover how a Minnesota-based collaboration between industry leaders Target and AURI ignited a new pathway for food entrepreneurs to scale nationally. Lauren Pradhan, CEO of Tesser Advisory,…
In this episode, Alexandra Ostlund of AURI and Brad Schloesser of Minnesota’s Agricultural and Rural Leadership program (MARL) unpack the 25-year-old program that’s shaping the future of agriculture leadership. Most leaders are…