North Central Research and Outreach Center
Grand Rapids, Minn.

The North Central Research and Outreach Center (NCROC) addresses a wide spectrum of agricultural and natural resource research subjects. In addition to traditional crop and livestock research, scientists at NCROC research agricultural engineering, environmental issues, forestry, industrial by-product utilization, horticulture, mycoherbicides, tourism and travel and wildrice.

At the NCROC…

Northern sandy soils and abundant rainful provide important and unqiue research and outreach opportunities in the following areas:

• cold hardiness, maturity and other agronomic concerns
• beef cow-calf research
• nematode tolerance testing in alfalfa
• potato disease
• wild rice
• horticulture
• forestry

Contact Information

North Central Research and Outreach Center
1861 Highway 169 East
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
Phone: 218-327-4490
Fax: 218-327-4126