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Minnesota Extension awarded grants targeting rural concerns
May 23, 2017, 13:56 PM
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University of Minnesota Extension has received nearly $1 million dollars in federal grants to focus on concerns in rural Minnesota.
The USDA is awarding Extension’s Center for Community Vitality $500,000 dollars to study how communities in Greater Minnesota can recruit and retain residents to supply their workforces.
A separate grant of more than $499,000 dollars is being given to the Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships to develop and pilot a new distribution model for small and medium-sized farms to access wholesale markets.
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