2025 Minnesota Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource Education Blueprint
The 2025 Minnesota Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource (AFNR) Education Blueprint builds on the 2012-2017 Blueprint and provides a strategic vision for AFNR education in Minnesota. MAELC will use the 2025 AFNR Blueprint to guide its work over the next seven years to continue to promote high quality and accessible AFNR education in the state.
Teach Ag
Agricultural Education is in short supply of teachers. Minnesota has several organizations to help students become agriculture teachers.
Minnesota Agricultural Education Internship
Minnesota is proud to offer an exciting internship opportunity for college students interested in becoming future agriculture teachers.
State Teach Ag Results (STAR) Program
Minnesota is one of the original members of State Teach Ag Results (STAR), a program created by the National Teach Ag Campaign. STAR is designed to assist states in creating sustainable and effective recruitment and retention plans to help fulfill the agriculture teacher shortage. Minnesota's committee has developed specific strategies to help recruit and retain agriculture teachers.
Professional Development & Mentor Programs
MAELC invests in educator professional development and mentor programs to help retain agricultural education instructors at the secondary, post secondary and Farm Business Management levels.