Awards Presented at MCIA Meeting

During the Minnesota Crop Improvement Association Annual Meeting, Milo Ravndalen and Sharon Bring received the Premier Seed Grower Award. Ravndalen raises small grains, soybeans for private seed companies, food-grade soybeans and perennial turf seed at Roosevelt in Lake of the Woods County. Bring produces spring wheat from her Marshall County farm at Newfolden. The Honorary Premier Seed Grower Award was presented to Ken Graeve of the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Craig Tomera, who manages the Grain Millers export facility in St. Peter. The Achievement in Crop Improvement, which is MCIA’s lifetime award, went to Scott Habstritt of Roseau.