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Rosemount Research
and Outreach Center
1605 160th Street W
Rosemount, MN 55068

Phone: 651-423-2455
Fax: 651-423-1491
E-mail: seibe037@umn.edu

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RROC-Home-Farmstead-image The Rosemount Research and Outreach Center is one of eight regional research and outreach centers for the University of Minnesota under the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. It is located 25 miles southeast of the Twin Cities near Rosemount, Minnesota on 5,000 acres at the University of Minnesota's Outreach, Research and Education (UMore) Park. The RROC is also home to a large collection of the Dakota County Master Gardeners' Research and Display Gardens.

Mission

The mission of the research and outreach centers is to support research that enhances the quality of agricultural production, human health, renewable energy and the environment, and to disseminate the benefits of this research to the public.

Research

The Rosemount Research and Outreach Center at UMore Park provides a land-based research site for approximately 40-45 faculty and their students each year. Faculty conducting research at the RROC are primarily from the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. A wide variety of research projects are ongoing in the areas of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Animal Science, Entomology, Forest Resources, Horticultural Science, Plant Pathology, and Soil, Water & Climate. Read More....