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.
The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation today announced the appointments of Neil Dierks of the National Pork Producers Council, Chris Novak of the National Corn Growers Association, Erik Olson of Natural Resources Defense Council, and Richard Wilkins of the American Soybean Association to its board of directors.
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Innovation is key as farmers and food producers wrestle with unstable markets for their inputs and outputs. This innovation is driven by federally funded agricultural research, which provides the basic research foundation for all of the high-tech answers. As the 2018 Farm Bill is drafted and debated, we look forward to keeping farm science programs like the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative—the USDA’s flagship competitive research program—in the middle of the conversation.
Read MoreStatement from Thomas Grumbly, President, Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation congratulates US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue and his entire agency on focusing this year on agricultural research and innovation. After the warmest January on the planet, the Midwest is expecting a deep freeze. The deep south is waterlogged from record floods, and California is wrapping up one of its driest Februaries ever. It’s the perfect time to start talking about agricultural research and desperately needed federal funding.
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