agInnovation North Central
A Regional Land-grant University Agricultural Experiment Station Network
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Upcoming Events
(see also APLU's events: https://www.aplu.org/meetings-and-events/)​​
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APLU Annual Meeting, November 9-11, 2025, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Registration now open!
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Save the Date: CARET/BAA Washington Conference, Sustaining the Land-grant Promise: Deep Roots, Strong Futures. February 22-25, 2026, Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H St NW, Washington, DC. More information to come.
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agNC/NCCEA Joint Spring Meeting, March 23-25, 2026, Tucson, AZ. Register here and book your room by 2/15/2026, please.
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agInnovation National Fall Meeting, September 21–25, Grand Junction, CO. More information to come.
News and Updates​
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agInnovation's FFY2026 National Chair, Dr. Chandra Reddy, formally announced his organizational initiatives.
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New agNC email lists! Contact chamilton@wisc.edu to be added.
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Private list for only directors: agncdirectorsonly@g-groups.wisc.edu
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Directors and their assistants: agnc_dirs_and_assistants@g-groups.wisc.edu
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Both lists are moderated and do not allow direct posting by non-list members.
NC246, Ecology and Management of Arthropods in Corn, was selected as our regional Excellence in Multistate Research Award! Great job, NC246!
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Congrats to Dr. Germán Bollero of the University of Illinois for being selected as our agNC winner of the 2025 agInnovation Excellence in Leadership Award!
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Congrats to Dr. Kaiyu Guan, also of the University of Illinois, for winning both the regional and national agInnovation Agricultural Research Innovation Award of Excellence!
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Congrats to Drs. Jeff Wood (University of Missouri) and Andrew Margenot (University of Illinois) for being our agNC inaugural winners of the Early and Mid-career Agricultural Research Innovation Awards of Excellence, respectively! We will virtually celebrate our regional awards winners on our August 8, 2025, monthly directors' call.
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We've made an impact! Check out our agNC Research Impact Report.
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​​Leaders from agInnovation, our national network of agricultural experiment stations at the nation’s Land-grant universities, have shared a draft of our 10-year Research Roadmap. This is intended to be a living document, so please take a look and reach out with your thoughts and feedback!
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We are now agInnovation North Central! On October 11, 2024, NCRA directors unanimously voted for a name change to agInnovation North Central to better align with our national and sister regional associations.​
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​​The agInnovation MRF (Multistate Research Fund) Impacts social media monthly toolkits are available here. Please share and use the materials as you see fit.​
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