SoAR’s Retaking The Field report profiled Lisa Schulte-Moore of Iowa State University who used a USDA AFRI grant to show how strips of native prairie protects soil and water. As a result, The Washington Post featured Dr. Schulte-Moore and her team’s cutting-edge work.
Read Darryl Fears piece: “Iowa farmers ripped out prairie; now some hope it can save them” at http://wpo.st/te-r1.
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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WASHINGTON, DC (October 17, 2019)—The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation applauds Rep. Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-8), and Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), who introduced the House companion legislation to the America Grows Act today. The companion bill, with the same text, was introduced in conjunction with a House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research subcommittee hearing on the implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill Research title. Senator Dick Durbin introduced the America Grows Act in August to ensure that the budget targets for appropriators in Congress continue to expand.
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SoAR has released a new report entitled “Developing Global Priorities for Plant Research”. The report presents a concise set of plant-focused research recommendations to inform the decision-making of agricultural research funders. It is the result of a series of interviews and an in-person meeting with twelve leading plant scientists from Europe, China, and the United States.
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