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| So why is http://www.csrees.usda.gov/ a website.
And http://www.nifa.usda.gov/qlinks/extension.html states:
All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation's more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities, have a third critical mission—extension. "Extension" means "reaching out," and—along with teaching and research—land-grant institutions "extend" their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through non-formal, non-credit programs.
These programs are largely administered through thousands of county and regional extension offices, which bring land-grant expertise to the most local of levels. And both the universities and their local offices are supported by NIFA, the federal partner in the Cooperative Extension System (CES). NIFA plays a key role in the land-grant extension mission by distributing annual Congressionally appropriated formula grants to supplement state and county funds. NIFA affects how these formula grants are used through national program leadership to help identify timely national priorities and ways to address them.
The second paragraph shows all the relationships. When I was in extension I got three paychecks. One from the state, one from the county and a federal paycheck. The county and the federal were very small. So I had three rulers.
Edited by tomram486 1/10/2012 20:12
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AG SEC'Y UNVEILS PLAN TO INCREASE USDA'S EFFICIENCY
