Establishing the Minnesota agricultural research grants board, specifying membership representation requirements and terms; requiring the board to investigate, fund and monitor research projects to make Minnesota grown crops more dependable and Minnesota exports more competitive in world markets, providing for grants and specifying authorized research projects; requiring the board to retain licensing and commercialization rights as part of funded research agreements; authorizing a board fee per cropland acre to fund activities, defining cropland; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to establish an account for the deposit of board levies collected by counties; exempting cropland from ad valorem property taxation for school district and county government purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of children, families and learning for reimbursement to school districts and to the commissioner of revenue for reimbursement to counties for the reduced tax base (mk)