By Editorial Staff, November 13, 2017
(Published on Omaha World-Herald)
This promising research is part of a broader effort to develop new strategies to address intestinal ailments such as Crohn’s disease…Read more.
In collaboration with eleven partnering universities, the SoAR Foundation is pleased to announce that "Retaking the Field: Empowering Agricultural Sciences for Health” will be released on November 2, 2017. This report is the third in the “Retaking the Field” series, which is part of SoAR’s broader education and advocacy to encourage additional federal support for food and agricultural research. Please join us on November 2, 2017 for Congressional briefings.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research, education and Extension budget should be doubled to $6 billion during the five-year life of the 2018 farm bill, according to a broad coalition of 63 organizations involved in almost every facet of the U.S. agricultural sector.
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The Farm Bill sets the priorities and scope of the USDA every five years. In the 2008 Farm Bill, the USDA’s research programs were reorganized and AFRI was established as a new program to award grants through a competitive, peer-reviewed process. But the reorganization did not result in significant amounts of new funding.
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