07.20.2016

National Geographic: To Protect the Food Supply, Spend More Federal Money

By Maryn McKenna, July 20, 2016

When a deadly disease that was killing millions of piglets suddenly arrived in the United States in 2013, no one was sure at first what was happening…Read more.

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As research budgets in the Farm Bill are debated, Zippy Duvall, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, joins the SoAR Foundation Board of Directors

Zippy Duvall, a third-generation farmer from Georgia who leads the American Farm Bureau Federation, is joining the board of directors of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation. The move comes as the urgency of agricultural research is increasingly debated in Washington DC and around the country.

Science Magazine: Building Agricultural Research

Nine billion people are expected to inhabit Planet Earth by 2050. Without agricultural research, there is little hope of sustaining this population surge, given that arable land and water supplies are fixed commodities.

AgriPulse: Farm Bill supporters challenged to focus on the long-game of science

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act into law in 1862, he set in motion the development of a system of land grant colleges and helped create the foundation for U.S. agricultural research that’s endured until today.