April 19, 2021
Humphrey School student Kate Stower has been researching barriers preventing rural Minnesota women from becoming leaders in their communities. Photo: UMN Extension
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Marie Donahue
After the challenges of the pandemic over the past year, the importance of connecting and empowering women leaders across Greater Minnesota has perhaps never been so evident as it is today.
“Women’s leadership is not just a ‘nice-to-have,’ we are finding it’s a matter of survival for our small towns,” said Kate Stower, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning student at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs who will graduate next month.
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To farmers across Greater Minnesota familiar with annual rotations of corn and soybean crops, the words “perennial” and “grain” might seem like an odd pairing at first.
That was true for Alan Kraus, conservation program manager for the Cannon River Watershed Partnership in Southeast Minnesota, until he read about the development of Kernza in his local newspaper a few years ago. Kernza is the trademarked name owned by The Land Institute of grain harvested from improved varieties of a perennial grass called intermediate wheatgrass.
“It sounded fascinating to me I had to learn as much as I could about this new crop,” Kraus said. “Once I did my research and connected with folks at the University of Minnesota who were working on this crop, it became clear we have a lot of wins with a grain like Kernza.”