Source: Fran O'Leary, FARM PROGRESS, 6/22/21


Universities are incubators for many of our nation’s most popular produce items — from the HyRed cranberry developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the Honeycrisp apple created at the University of Minnesota. Universities also have created corn hybrids, soybean varieties, drugs for humans and livestock, and countless other inventions.

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