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Arrange for us to come and teach on this important topic. Excellent resource for employee groups, community organizations, and more.

Cooking Matters courses offer practical nutrition information, hands-on food preparation, and food budgeting and shopping.

Participatory funding is the process of individuals working together to determine how grants and philanthropic gifts are distributed in their communities.

Extension educators offer face-to-face training to school food service professionals. Topics include increasing participation in school breakfast, managing food allergens, lowering sodium, reducing ...

Cooking Matters volunteer opportunities include serving as a culinary instructor, a class manager, a class shopper and a class assistant.

4-H volunteers, youth members and staff are invited to join us on Jan. 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. for the Minnesota 4-H Animal Science Project Development Committee (PDC) Kickoff Webinar.

In its 53rd year, University of Minnesota Extension’s Cow-Calf Days event is one of Minnesota’s leading sources of information, technology and research for cow-calf producers.

Ruminant stomachs have four compartments: the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum. Rumen microbes ferment feed and produce volatile fatty acids, which is the cow’s main energy source.