To Members of the NASULGC System:

The Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research of the House Agriculture Committee held an oversight hearing in Athens, Georgia recently to "review agricultural research and extension." Dr. Gale A. Buchanan, Dean and Director, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, was the lead-off witness. Others from the University of Georgia testified. These statements have now been posted to the House Agriculture Committee Web site and can be viewed as follows:

Dr. Gale A. Buchanan
Dean and Director, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of Georgia

Dr. Sharon Nickols
Dean, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
University of Georgia

Dr. Melvin P. Garber
Associate Dean for Extension
University of Georgia

Dr. Clifton Baile
GRA Eminent Scholar in Agricultural Biotechnology
University of Georgia

Dr. David Swayne
Director, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory
Representing the Agricultural Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture.

Dr. Wayne Reeves
Director, J.Phil Campbell Senior Natural Resource Conservation Center
Representing the Agricultural Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture.

Fred Hutchison
Fleishman-Hillard Government Relations