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Recipient
Lincoln County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,873

To enhance Lincoln County Fair's capacity to host diverse programming by purchasing a stage. A stage would create a performance area outside of the grandstand, allowing for more programming at the fair. Currently, there is not a space for dance performances or performances with multiple singers. The stage would elevate the event to attract attention and allow for greater visibility, but be low enough to allow for audience interaction.

Lincoln
Recipient
Lincoln County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To bring a variety of arts and cultural heritage programming to the Lincoln County Fair. The fair will host live jazz, folk and bluegrass bands, in addition to a clogging performance. A demonstration area will also be created in the Open Class Exhibits Building. In that space, an artist will present on drawing and painting, and attendees can make their own art at the fair with provided supplies.

Lincoln
Recipient
Ramsey County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To promote the preservation of agricultural history, education and diversity at the Ramsey County Fair by showcasing traditional Hmong dances, square dancers, a fife and drum corp, and Agricadabra, a show which featurs agricultural facts and magic.

Ramsey
Recipient
Pine County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000

To construct a multi-purpose building for music, theater, entertainment, and artistic demonstrations. The structure will be designed to enhance the quality of sound and the visibility of the artists who perform on stage for the audience.

Pine
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To restore several Dakota City building exteriors on the fairgrounds, in collaboration with Dakota City Heritage Village. These local structures that portray a 1900 era rural village include the 1867 Vermillion Presbyterian Church, the belfry of the District 96 one room school, and the 1861 frame structure that was originally built as a school and most recently used as the millinery and dressmaker’s shop.

Dakota
Recipient
Steele County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000

To increase the Steele County Fair's capacity to showcase children's art by purchasing new display materials. Portable wall panels will allow work to be hung in a gallery type fashion, and offer more surface area to display children's art.

Steele
Recipient
Dodge County Free Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Our legacy project involves two parts. First portion would go to the purchase of four iPads for our Fine Arts/Photography and Agriculture/Horticulture Departments. They would be used for our open class departments for registration, judging, and placements. The second portion would go towards the sound proofing of our Township Square Stage. This is an outdoor performance stage that is used by many varieties of performers: bands, magicians, jugglers, balloon artists, competitions, etc.

Dodge
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We are going to have a different balloon artist this year. We are inviting a southeast Minnesota resident to perform for our youth. We will also have The Red Letter Band, an inspirational country music band. They perform a variety of classic county hits and have prize giveaways for crowd participation. They provide a nostalgic opportunity to listen to music that all will enjoy.

Fillmore
Recipient
Hennepin County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Legacy funds will be used for stage rental, demonstrations and a pan drummer entertainer. The demonstrations will include wood turning, done by a foot controlled turner, done in a historical setting complete with costuming. Also included in the demonstration area will be a potter (from the region) who throws clay.

Hennepin
Recipient
Lincoln County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500

We would like to bring the Red Letter Band to the Lincoln County Fair. The Red Letter Band is a Minnesota-based band. They have the reputation for bringing top-notch musical entertainment to the stage. It is a unique opportunity for the residents of Lincoln County to enjoy high-quality classic country with a professional, big city Nashville sound at no cost. The fair is also hoping to bring Skipping Stones to the fair. They are also Minnesota based and play guitar and sing over 1000 cover tunes and classicals, plus original compositions.

Lincoln
Recipient
Olmsted County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We plan to use this grant to offset costs for our blacksmith demonstrations, and towards the local Minnesota-based musicians we hire for our free stage.

Olmsted
Recipient
Steele County Free Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

This grant is intended to provide access to cultural music of this area of the state. We are inviting in musical groups for our old-time music afternoon and a special concert in our north entertainment area. These groups include The Concord Singers, The Marv Nissel Band, and the Over-60 band. We are trying to pass on old-time music to younger audiences and keep the tradition of this music as a part of the fair. We also have a fair museum, and the doors are sticking making it difficult for people to get in. This is a controlled environment building so we need to keep the doors closed.

Steele
Recipient
Dakota County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We would like to have our local blacksmith's guild members give demonstrations throughout the week of our fair in the blacksmith shop located in our Heritage Village on the fairgrounds. We could get many demonstrators to demonstrate the equipment that we have in our heritage village buildings such as spinning, weaving, quilting, and cooking. We also may have an opportunity to have a threshing demonstration by the local machinery men that meet here in Dakota County. We hope to contract a chainsaw artist and/or the Paul Bunyan Live show to have here the week of the fair.

Dakota
Recipient
Pine County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Purchase replacement speakers, drivers and new lighting for the band shell.

Pine
Recipient
Dakota County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

The chainsaw artist would be able to give many demonstrations throughout the week of the fair. We will contract the Lumberjack show for all seven days of the fair and have lumberjack camps and shows. We will have scheduled three shows a day.

Dakota
Recipient
Dodge County Free Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Our project for the legacy grant would be to purchase a new performance stage for our Entertainment Center. Our current stage floor is falling apart and is no longer conducive to our needs. We are in need of a safer and larger stage area that has stairs for those using it. Our current stage doesn't have stairs. This will impact all of our performers and programs we have on this stage during the fair.

Dodge
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We will have a totally new experience for one of our afternoon events for the youth at the Fillmore County Fair this year. We plan to bring "Emotion in Motion," a mobile splatter paint experience to our fair. This will be a fully immersive artistic experience, that is easy and fun for youth. When finished they will have an original splatter painting for their walls. We try to incorporate new things each year at the fair to accompany the traditional events that fairgoers expect.

Fillmore
Recipient
Olmsted County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Olmsted County Fair offers a free stage featuring all Rochester, MN or southeastern Minnesota-based musical artists every night of the fair. We plan to use funds from the Legacy Grant to help bring these musical and performing artists to our fair. A few of our featured acts this year include bands County Line Drive and The Soul Train.

Olmsted
Recipient
Pine County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Hire Ag Inspire for the duration of the 2024 fair: Ag Inspire is a non-profit organization, that creates educational exhibits to teach kids and adults the impact agriculture has on their lives. We also expect to have the ethanol racer and barn displays exhibiting in our new rabbit/poultry barn.
Activity items include a chisel plow shank and shovel.

Pine
Recipient
Hennepin County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Hennepin County Fair would like to use their Legacy grant money for the following items: Wood turner demonstration, pottery demonstration, Chuck Perry - musician/magician, and stage rental for musicians.

Hennepin
Recipient
Lincoln County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

The Lincoln County Fair would like to bring a Mobile Sign Shop to the fair. This program is located out of the Twin Cities. They would be on the grounds and connect fairgoers to artist-created, mobile tools that are purpose-built to pique curiosity and prompt interaction. Our local library has agreed to pay for $500 of the cost if we could get them to come during the fair. The Larry Olsen Band, out of Lake Benton, MN, plays polkas, waltzes and other old-time music. We will have them perform in our Rainbow Pavilion (an old dance hall).

Lincoln
Recipient
Steele County Free Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Each year we try to highlight some form of the arts that the public may not get to see often. In 2024, we will be featuring a glass blowing demonstration in our Family Zone. The Glass artists do shows demonstrating techniques and create a piece for the audience to see each step off the process. They do multiple shows daily between 10am to 9pm.

Steele
Recipient
Dodge County Free Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To better highlight local talent by making the exhibits of the creative activities more visible and engaging to fair visitors. Funds will be used to improve lighting by upgrading wiring and fixtures, adding electrical hookups to allow spotlights on specific displays, and installing a glass board.

Dodge
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,800

To upgrade and replace display cases for 4-H. The Dakota County Agricultural Society has enhanced the display capability for the 4-H program to improve viewing and safety.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To enhance fairgoers ability to view art work of local 4-H members by upgrading and replacing display cases.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000

To provide programming that tells the story of Dakota County's 160 years of settlement, Minnesota history and cultural traditions, through an entertaining tent show that combines story telling and original music. The show will be reminiscent of the 1900s era Chautauqua programs. It will be performed daily in the tent at Dakota City Heritage Village.

Dakota
Recipient
Pine County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To provide opportunities to Pine County artists to show their talents to the 30,000 attendees of the Pine County Fair. Funds will cover 30 hours of arts programming, consisting of demonstrations and workshops, and 30 hours of music by local musicians. Additionally, a sun shade will be purchased to encourage visitors to stay for programming.

Pine
Recipient
Dodge County Free Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,350

To construct a portable stage that can be used for arts, cultural heritage, and Minnesota history programming at different fairground locations, and to commission a local artist to paint a mural depicting fair related activities.

Dodge
Recipient
Dodge County Free Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To improve lighting in the the building that houses horticulture and FFA projects at the Dodge County Free Fair. Funds will also be used to construct a mobility ramp, allowing fairgoers with mobility restrictions to access exhibits showcasing local work.

Dodge
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650

To provide children an opportunity to see a puppet show with a theme to protect the planet and environment.

Fillmore
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer new arts and cultural heritage programming at the Fillmore County Fair. Funds will be used to install a historical exhibit, host a bluegrass performance, and being a project that documents fairgoers experiences through interviews and photos. The project is meant to bridge the past and the future by helping local community members appreciate local history and share their own story for generations to come.

Fillmore
Recipient
Hennepin County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer aspects of Minnesota’s heritage that fairgoers normally would not be able to enjoy. The Hennepin County Fair offered performances and demonstrations in storytelling, clogging, old time string music, blacksmith, potter, dog sled, textile creation, knitting, weaving and wood carving. The storyteller, Bob Gasch, told and acted out stories about Minnesota’s settlement period including Johnny Appleseed, and more and the cloggers demonstrated a historical style of dance from the early settlement of Minnesota.

Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,550

To offer several demonstrations throughout the fair to educate fairgoers on key parts of Minnesota’s history and how these aspects contributed to the economic and agricultural status of the state. Programming will include a lumberjack show and the Iron Will dog sled exhibit.

Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin County Agricultural Society

To host a variety of arts and cultural heritage activities at the Hennepin County Fair, and enhance the display area for fine arts exhibits. The fair will host a bluegrass band, a MN original singer/songwriter, a storyteller, and a variety of arts demonstrations.

Hennepin
Recipient
Olmstead County Fair Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,650

To create a Historic Structures Report (HSR), a specialized study that provides documentary information about a historic property's significance, history of use, and current condition. It will be an early step in preservation planning, that considers goals for a structure's use, significant features, and outlines a recommended course of treatment and scope of work for repair and restoration.

Olmsted
Recipient
Olmstead County Fair Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

The project will develop and install an educational exhibit on the history and significance of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Olmsted County and throughout MN. As the regional headquarters of both of these depression-era economic programs, the Olmsted County Fairgrounds was integral to their local activities and played a role in the development of agricultural and civic infrastructure that continued to serve southeastern MN for decades.

Olmsted
Recipient
Dept. of Agriculture / U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is an invasive insect that has been decimating ash trees throughout the Great Lakes states. It was first discovered in Minnesota in 2009 and is now found in four counties (Hennepin, Houston, Ramsey, and Winona). EAB poses a particularly serious threat to Minnesota because it is home to nearly 1 billion ash trees that occur throughout the state - the second most of any state.
Hennepin
Houston
Ramsey
Statewide
Winona
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Lincoln County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,800

To improve the lighting and accessibility in the two fine arts buildings and create an interactive arts area.

Lincoln
Recipient
Lincoln County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To enhance fairgoers experience of arts performances by adding a backstage curtain to the stage. Funds will also be used to feature arts demonstrations by the Milan Village Arts School, and the Iron Will dogsled exhibit.

Lincoln