MAES is often mistakenly thought of as the University of Minnesota fields and facilities on the St. Paul campus and at Research and Outreach Centers across the state. While those are important places for our work, MAES is not a physical place but rather a research program that engages hundreds of University of Minnesota faculty and staff and reaches thousands of Minnesotans statewide.
Learn more about MAES research in some of Minnesota's key industries:
Corn | Soybean | Small grains | Poultry | Swine | Dairy | Forests
MAES Announces FY26/27 Rapid Agricultural Response Fund Project Awards
The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) at the University of Minnesota has awarded approximately $2 million from the Rapid Agricultural Response Fund (RARF) to 10 research projects that will help protect Minnesota’s agricultural sector from current and emerging threats.
The newly-awarded RARF projects span issues across the state's agriculture industries, including responding to the crop pest European corn borer and the potato fungal disease verticullium wilt, assessing if fertilizers are contributing to nitrate in groundwater challenges, improving the utilization of high oleic soybeans as livestock feed, and preventing the spread of noxious weeds through manure.
From data to decisions
Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine are using tech to help farmers improve herd management. Learn more about this RARF-funded research
2024 Minnesota field crop variety trial results available
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 varietytrials.umn.edu/2024 to see variety trial results for 8 different Minnesota crops.