In conjunction with the SoAR Foundation, The National Academies has officially announced the Breakthroughs 2030 study to produce a 10-year agenda for food and agriculture research. Nominations for the study’s lead committee are due by March 22. Please contact Tim Fink (tfink@supportagresearch.org or 571-257-7625) with any questions.
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If agriculture is to have any chance of answering these challenges, we must have new and improved techniques and technologies. The problem is that agricultural innovation has not kept pace.
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The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation welcomes the introduction of the “America Grows Act” by Senator Dick Durbin today. This bill would ensure that the budget targets for appropriators in Congress continue to expand.
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Groundbreaking legislation welcomed by broad coalition Washington DC (September 10, 2019)—New legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) would mandate a budget increase for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s (USDA) four primary research agencies. Presently, private sector spending on food and agricultural research is nearly three times the amount invested by the federal government despite the funding sources being equivalent as recently as 2004.
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