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To Members of the A.P.L.U. System:
- Board on Agriculture Assembly
- Budget and Advocacy Committee
- Council on Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Teaching
- Council on Governmental Affairs (Aggies)
The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee met this
afternoon and after brief discussion reported its F.Y. 2010 bill
to the full House Appropriations Committee. We have obtained a
copy of the tentative results for the USDA's National Institute
of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
Initial Analysis
Overall funding for NIFA increased slightly over the F.Y.
2009 level (by approximately $4 million). However, 9 of the 13
programs on the Budget and Advocacy Committee's list of
priorities received increases, totaling $32.712 million:
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Table 1: BAC's NIFA Priorities
for F.Y. 2010 Compared to House Marks |
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Targeted Enhancements |
FY 2009 |
A.P.L.U. |
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House |
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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative |
201,504,000 |
300,000,000 |
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210,000,000 |
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Smith Lever 3(b) and 3(c) |
288,548,000 |
300,000,000 |
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295,000,000 |
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Hatch Act |
207,106,000 |
225,000,000 |
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215,000,000 |
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Evans-Allen Program (Research) |
45,504,000 |
49,000,000 |
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48,000,000 |
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1890 Institutions Extension |
40,150,000 |
43,000,000 |
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44,000,000 |
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McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry |
27,535,000 |
30,000,000 |
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28,000,000 |
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Higher Education Challenge Grants |
5,654,000 |
23,154,000 |
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5,654,000 |
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National Needs Fellowship Grants |
3,859,000 |
4,500,000 |
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3,859,000 |
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1994 Institutions Extension |
3,321,000 |
5,000,000 |
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4,321,000 |
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1994 Institutions Research |
1,610,000 |
3,000,000 |
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1,610,000 |
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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program |
66,155,000 |
68,000,000 |
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68,000,000 |
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Children, Youth, and Families at Risk |
8,182,000 |
10,000,000 |
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8,396,000 |
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New Technologies for Ag Extension (eXtension) |
1,500,000 |
5,000,000 |
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1,500,000 |
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TOTALS |
$ 900,628,000 |
$ 1,065,654,000 |
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$ 933,340,000 |
We have not yet been able to confirm all of the other NIFA line
item results. However, we can report the following additional
tentative increases: (1) 1890 Institutions Capacity
Building Grants -- up $5,000,000; (2) 1890 Facilities Grants --
up $3,000,000; (3) Hispanic Education Partnerships -- up
$3,763,000; (4) Organic Transition Program -- up $3,158,000; (5)
Insular Areas Residential Instruction Grants -- up $200,000; (6)
Veterinary Medical Services Act -- up $1,050,000.
At the same time the subcommittee provided these programmatic
increases, they continued to reduce the number and dollar value
of NIFA "earmarks." (At this time we have neither the total of
the earmark reductions nor individual results.)
We can also report that the subcommittee did not make any
reductions in the four mandatory spending programs authorized in
the 2008 Farm Bill:
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Table 2: Mandatory
NIFA Funding Programs |
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Mandatory Program |
Authorized |
House |
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Organic Agriculture Research / Extension |
20,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
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Specialty Crop Research |
50,000,000 |
50,000,000 |
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Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development |
19,000,000 |
19,000,000 |
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Biomass R&D |
28,000,000 |
28,000,000 |
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TOTAL |
$117,000,000 |
$117,000,000 |
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Reduction
in Mandatory Funds >> |
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$0 |
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Next Steps
The bill now goes to the full House Appropriations
Committee, with a markup now scheduled for Thursday, June 18.
The bill is tentatively scheduled for the House floor during the
month of July. When we have all of the markup results and any
additional information, we will post it to the new website:
www.land-grant.org.
The Cornerstone Team
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