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Ohio State’s CFAES highlights federal grant volatility, enrollment gains and Farm Science Review recovery in committee testimony
Summary
Dr. Kathleen Kress, vice president for agricultural administration and dean of the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University, told the House Agriculture Committee the college’s line items in the executive budget sustain OSU Extension, OARDC and Ohio Sea Grant.
Dr. Kathleen Kress, vice president for agricultural administration and dean of the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University, told the House Agriculture Committee the college’s line items in the executive budget sustain OSU Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and Ohio Sea Grant.
Kress said OSU Extension delivers education and outreach across all 88 counties and that the executive budget would appropriate $25,500,000 in each fiscal year to support extension programs. “Through our partnerships with county commissioners, we educate over 2,500,000 Ohioans each year,” she told the committee, and she added the college now reaches “about 1,000,000 learners through virtual education” annually.
The budget also includes funding lines for the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center — just over $37,000,000 per fiscal…
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