(MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL) December 4, 2024聽鈥 The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) have published the 2024 Minnesota Field Crop Trials. Visit聽聽to see variety trials for 8 different Minnesota crops.
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About the Crop Variety Trials
When farmers are ready to make seed choices, the University of Minnesota field crop trials offer unbiased and trustworthy information. The annual Field Crop Trials are one of the key ways MAES works to bring valuable research into the hands of farmers and ultimately help improve farm profitability, improve the economy and overall quality of life in Minnesota.
Since the late 1880s, MAES has published reports of crop variety trials but it wasn鈥檛 until 1948 that the trials were combined into a single annual publication. Today, the annual field crop trials are designed in-house and published online at聽聽and feature several crops that are trialed at multiple Research and Outreach Centers and cooperating farmers鈥 fields across the state.