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NDSU director outlines research, extension impacts as committee weighs budget cuts and restorations
Summary
NDSU’s Greg Lardy told the House Appropriations Government Operations Division how reductions and targeted hires in Senate Bill 2020 would affect breeding programs, county extension services and long-term research. Lawmakers questioned vacant FTEs, a 3% base budget cut and which positions the Senate funded or left out.
Chairman Munson and members of the House Appropriations - Government Operations Division heard a briefing from Greg Lardy of NDSU Agriculture on Senate Bill 2020, the Research and Extension appropriation package, and how proposed changes would affect the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and NDSU Extension.
Lardy said the experiment station and extension hold long-term programs that underpin crop breeding, pest management and youth education. “In front of you, you have a handout that we prepared, based on the list of questions that were asked last week,” he told the committee, and he highlighted examples such as NDSU-developed Durham…
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