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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
In this opinion piece, David Rosowsky at Kansas State University and Peter Dorhout at Iowa State University discuss the need for agriculture research infrastructure.
Congress is under pressure to finally put a significant amount of farm bill funding toward reversing a decades-long decline in public research funding that has seen facilities decay even as universities and companies struggle to find new scientists.
In this opinion piece, Greg Ibach, former Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at USDA and currently with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses the need for an outcome-based conservation system.
The nation’s land-grant universities face a threat from the United States Department of Agriculture’s decision to move its research arm and its economics bureau away from D.C.
The land-grant university administrators charged with educating the next generation of agriculturists could probably earn more in the private sector or leading a trade association, but at least one earns more than $400,000.
