Crookston will be one of three sites connected on inter-active television to engage conversation about the agriculture crisis. Northwest Minnesota citizens are invited to 133 Kiehle at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC), at 6:00 p.m., Monday, June 14, to talk to other Minnesotans in Worthington and St. Paul. Governor Jesse Ventura will participate from the St. Paul site. KTCA public television and Minnesota Public Radio will carry the program live, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

"The Minnesota Citizens Forum is an ongoing project to bring attention to issues that affect all of us," says Carolyn Weber, UMC campus coordinator of the project. Weber knows first hand the crisis facing agriculture. She and her husband faced significant change in their own farming operation a few years ago. This summer, she is working on a project called "Connecting Communities for One Minnesota."

"UMC is pleased to be a host site for this forum on agriculture," says Richard Nelson, director of agriculture programs at UMC. "Agriculture is important to both our college and our region. We need to engage more meaningful conversation about the changing agriculture economy," says Nelson.