...funded by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. The Central region workshop is co-sponsored by the Staples Central Lakes College Ag Center. For more information and to register, visit: www.extension.umn.edu/go/1132. Contact Amanda...

...and covers apple and fruit tree grafting. The workshop is from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 19 at the Central Lakes College Ag and Energy Center field office, main building, in Staples just off County Road No. 2. While this is professional-level...

Pruning workshop to be held A pruning workshop will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on April 18 at Central Lakes College Ag and Energy Center Field Office, Staples, Minnesota.It's the second in a series of workshops on orchard...

...HappyDancingTurtle.org for details.A fruit tree pruning workshop will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on April 18 at the Central Lakes College Ag and Energy Center field office at Staples.It will be led by fruit scientist Thaddeus McCamant, accompanied...

...Crow Wing River ? data, discussion and discovery program is planned from 1-3:30 p.m. June 13 at the Central Lakes College Ag Center in StaplesLocal partners and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will share results from two years...

...you could run a motor on the canola oil you have in your kitchen cupboard? Central Lakes College Ag Center Director Bob Schafer and Ron Nelson, Central Lakes College Ag Center Farm Manager, harvested a 35-acre field of canola Monday near Pillager...

...from canola grown on Washington state farms."Added to the list of entities exploring the use of canola is Staples based CLC Ag Center.It's this type of experimentation and pushing the boundaries of alternative fuel sources that makes CLC a tremendous...

...farmer veterans Mike Sams (a heavy equipment instructor at CLC) and Seth Connell, the CLC Veterans Resource Center, CLC Ag and Energy Center, the Farm Beginnings Program of the Land Stewardship Project and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation...

STAPLES - The Agricultural and Energy Center at Central Lakes College, Staples, recently hosted an on-farm fuel production seminar for the region. Attendees came from as far as North Dakota.Aimed at a core audience of serious alternative fuel users, the four-hour seminar included a look at fuel conversion that is in practice and using various sources.Bob Schafer, center director, and Craig Hove, a lab assistant in the CLC Diesel and Heavy Equipment Technician program, led a discussion on the conversion of a Ford tractor to a vegetable oil-fueled Yanmar diesel.

CLC Ag & Energy Center to receive $193,000 grantThe Central Lakes College Agricultural and Energy Center at Staples will receive a...