Chavonda Jacobs-Young, the USDA’s under secretary for research, education, and economics, spoke of the need to fund technology to support ag research.
“We have to have broadband, we have to have high-powered networking systems to move that data to and fro, to analyze, to share the high-performance computing,” she said.
North Dakota State University Vice President for Agricultural Affairs Greg Lardy advocated for a national database of ag research. “It’s critical that we develop a more robust database and a way to analyze that,” he said.
Josh Gackle farms near Kulm in southeast North Dakota and is president of the American Soybean Association. He noted that farmers contribute to ag research, trade expansion and transportation infrastructure through checkoffs – collecting a small percentage from each sale of soybeans.
“It is concerning to us that U.S. federal ag research funding has declined while other countries have maintained or increased their funding levels,” he said.
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