Agricultural Research and Development, Special Oversight Hearings: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology and the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning and Analysis of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - Agriculture |
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activities agencies agri agricul Agricultural Experiment Station agricultural production agricultural research system agricultural scientists Animals areas ARPAC assist basic disciplines basic research BENTLEY biological Chairman colleges Committee commodity conducted CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cooperative coordination countries crop productivity CSRS Department of Agriculture economic efficiency effort energy evaluation farm Federal food production foreign forestry funds grain grants improvement increase input institutions International land land-grant land-grant universities legumes LIBRARY OF CONGRESS livestock major marketing McIntire-Stennis Act ment Michigan State University National Science Board National Science Foundation needs nitrogen fixation nutrition organizations percent photosynthesis plant priorities problems protein publicly supported agricultural question RAY THORNTON RECOMMENDATION Regional renewable resources research administrators research program Research Service Response SAES scientific community soil sorghum soybeans strategy SUBCOMMITTEE supported agricultural research SYMINGTON THORNTON tion tural U.S. Department University USDA USDA-State system WITTWER world food
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Page 67 - ... at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 68 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary under sections 2 to 10, inclusive, in order to determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of reforestation and of growing, managing, and utilizing timber, forage, and other forest products, of maintaining favorable conditions of water flow and the prevention of erosion...
Page 67 - Provided, that no money shall be paid out under this act to any State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with the provisions of this act, if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth...
Page 67 - Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office,) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power...
Page 57 - IV. Expand the demand for farm and forest products by developing new and improved products and processes and enhancing product quality.
Page 67 - It shall be the object and duty of the State agricultural experiment stations through the expenditure of the appropriations hereinafter authorized to conduct original and other researches, investigations, and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural Industry...
Page 68 - Agriculture is hereby authorized to cooperate with the several States for the purpose of encouraging and assisting them in carrying out programs of forestry research. Such assistance shall be in accordance with plans to be agreed upon in advance by the Secretary and (a) land-grant colleges or agricultural experiment stations established under the Morrill Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat.
Page 116 - That the USDA seek a greatly increased level of appropriations for a competitive grants program, which should include support of basic research in the sciences (biological, physical, social) that underpin the USDA mission. These appropriations should be without commodity earmarking although they should not exclude commodity related research.
Page 46 - ... changing business structure, and developing strategies for growth. Applied research is conducted to give farmers relevant and expert assistance...
Page 15 - Studies of energy inputs into alternative agricultural production techniques are crucial. Calculations should be made of the actual food energy of crop output per unit of actual energy input. Low energy production techniques for the major food crops should be pursued on a national and global scale (49). These crops include rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, millet, rye, barley, cassava, sweet potato, potato, coconut, banana, common mung bean, soybean, cowpea, chick and pigeon pea, peanut, sugar beet, and...