Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile by Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System

Author:Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Agriculture. Education : Higher Education
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1995-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

• As Tables 4-1 and 4-2 indicate, in 1993 30 percent of USDA's research appropriations supported extramural research—that is, research supported by but not conducted by USDA, most of which occurs at the state agricultural experiment stations (SAESs) associated with the 1862 land grant colleges of agriculture or at forestry and veterinary medicine schools. This compares with 27 percent in 1980 and 29 percent in 1990. It would seem that the importance of extramural research, in terms of all federally funded agricultural research, is increasing, if only slightly. As noted in Chapter 6, an expanding source of federal funds for extramural agricultural research has been the competitive grants program known as the National Research Initiative (NRI). The NRI, however, is open to scientists both inside and outside the SAES system; thus the full amount of this increase has not gone to USDA's traditional extramural partners at the land grant colleges of agriculture.

• A comparison of ARS and CSRS appropriations shows that between 1980 and 1995 the budget for intramural research grew at a slightly slower pace than that for extramural research. CSRS appropriations grew 108 percent, an annual average rate of 7.2 percent in nominal dollars. ARS appropriations grew 98 percent, or 6.5 percent per year (Table 4-1). However, in both cases, real budget increases—that is, accounting for the effects of inflation—were much smaller. The real value of total USDA research agency appropriations increased less than 1 percent annually (average) between 1980 and 1990 and only 2 percent annually (average) between 1990 and 1993 (Table 4-2).

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