The grains continue to rally, and the rally looks to be durable. Written By: Randy Martinson | × The Minnesota Corn Growers Association is seeking proposals for its sixth Innovation Grant Program. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC) Another year has come and gone. The year 2020 will certainly go down in the record books as one we soon hope to forget. But when looking back, maybe not all of it was bad. As most news sources have already stated, the leading story for the year was COVID-19. Since March that has been the focus of everything, from government reaction to the economy.