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Federal Budget Agreement Shows That Congress Recognizes the Need for More Agricultural Research

The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will receive a budget increase of $25 million in fiscal year 2016, an increase that the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation applauded today.

SoAR Participation in NIFA’s Virtual Stakeholder Listening Session

To ensure high-quality research delivers benefits for farmers and consumers and sustains the environment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must listen to diverse viewpoints and expertise from all parts of the food and agriculture system. USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently held a virtual listening session. Stakeholders, customers, and partners were “invited to contribute your expert opinion on how Federal investments can best address current needs and challenges facing U.S. agriculture.”

Letter to the Senate on Proposed NIFA Relocation

On August 9, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the department’s intention to relocate the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) to outside of Washington, DC effective the end of 2019. In response, SoAR sent a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow encouraging leadership to ask for a more detailed justification for the change.