The college honored Gar-Lin Dairy Farms in Eyota, Minnesota, with the 2017 Dairy Appreciation Award at the Minnesota Dairy Health Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, in April.

A high-performance, high-resolution DNA sequencer was installed in the research laboratory at the University of Minnesota Mid-Central Research and Outreach Center in Willmar, Minnesota, in November to help provide solutions to problems facing the turkey industry.