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The Moorhead-Kurtz Township Farm Bureau unit was one of several Farm Bureau units in Clay County, Minnesota. All units were affiliated with the Clay County Farm Bureau, which in turn was affiliated with the Minnesota Farm Bureau and the National Farm Bureau.

The Moorhead Area Women’s Political Caucus was formed in the early 1970s. It was connected with the Minnesota’s Women’s Political Caucus and the National Women’s Political Caucus. The goals of the organization were to get women involved in politics and to elect women to public office. The organization also worked against discrimination of women.

The Moorhead [Minnesota] Drug Company Records are a collection of correspondence, blue prints, building permit, invoices, and ledgers which relate to the construction of the Moorhead Rexall Drug Company. The year covered most extensively is 1951 with much of the construction taking place during this time.

Established in 1975 to actively promote the interests of wheat growers in Minnesota, the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers is headquartered in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. It shares its facilities with a companion organization, the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council. Both organizations devote their efforts to a variety of activities including sponsoring research on wheat cultivation, promoting legislation for wheat prices and supports, marketing of Minnesota wheat in the nation and abroad, and acting as a clearing house of information for wheat farmers in the region.

This collection contains committee meetings, legislative records, projects, newspaper clippings, and other related Chamber material. There are also several volumes of scrapbooks related to the Greater Moorhead Days. The majority of the material is in excellent condition.

As stated in the introduction to Historic Resources in Minnesota: A Report of Their Extent, Location, and Need for Preservation, Submitted to the Minnesota Legislature by the Minnesota Historical Society (Minnesota Historical Society, 1979), "The 1977 State Legislature directed the Minnesota Historical Society 'to identify, inventory, and organize information about Minnesota's historical resources in a comprehensive plan.' It was anticipated that such a survey would be 'of inestimable use to the state, counties, cities, and regions in charting a course for historic preservation, recommending legislation needed in this field to the 1979 legislature, and bringing into sharp focus what programs and projects most need the State Historical Society's grant-in-aid program in the future'" (p. 1).

Sugar beets have been grown in the Red River Valley since the 1920s. In August 1972, some 300 farmers living in some seven North Dakota and Minnesota counties formed a cooperative. This cooperative, subsequently incorporated as the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, allowed the members to diversify their farming operations by adding sugar beets to their crops.

Mexican-Americans have been migrating to the Red River Valley since the late 1920s, primarily to work on the sugar beet farms during the summer weeding and the fall harvest. Since the introduction of mechanical cultivators and harvesters in the1950s, the need for field labor has declined, but the number of migrants has continued to grow. As a result, many Mexican-Americans have begun to settle permanently in Minnesota and North Dakota towns in the Valley.

The Moorhead Area Retired Educators Association serves as a local unit of the Retired Educators Association of Minnesota and is affiliated with the National Retired Teachers Association. The purposes of the MAREA are to help retired teachers maintain an identity with the teaching profession, to further the causes of education, to help advance the interest and welfare of the retired teachers in the state and local community, to foster good fellowship among retired teachers, and to cooperate with NRTA and REAM by promoting membership, legislation, projects, and programs.

The Migrant Issues Task Force was established in 1989, jointly funded by local funds and a greant from the West Central Minnesota Initiative Fund. The Task Force’s goals, to be carried out over a three year period, were to identify problems related to the migrant community in the Moorhead-Clay County region off Minnesota, and to develop solutions to those problems.