Cornerstone Report from Washington

Vol. 7, No. 13 – October 2, 2009

CRS Report: Ag Research, Education, and Extension — Issues and Background

To Members of the APLU System:

- Board on Agriculture Assembly

- Budget and Advocacy Committee

- Council on Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching

- Council on Governmental Affairs (Aggies)

Attached, for your information is an extremely interesting and useful report from the Congressional Research Service entitled: “Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension: Issues and Background.”

Authored by Melissa D. Ho, CRS Analyst in Agricultural Policy, the September 17th report provides a good perspective on both recent legislative actions and the current policy setting for the budget/appropriations issues that we face. It also gives credit to the land-grant system and APLU (NASULGC) for the new National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other developments in the 2008 Farm Bill.

 The report is worth reading in its entirety.

File Link: www.land-grant.org/docs/FY2010/CRS_R40819.pdf

The Cornerstone Team