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NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DIRECTORS |
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181st Meeting |
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March 25 & 26, 2008 |
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Devonshire/Aquitaine Room Call-in phone number: 702-597-7079 |
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25-Mar |
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8:00 |
1.0 |
Call to Order |
Ken Grafton |
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2.0 |
Approval of Sept 2007 Minutes
(http://www.wisc.edu/ncra/Sept2007.htm) |
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3.0 |
Adoption of the
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4.0 |
Executive Committee Report
and Interim Actions of the Chair |
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8:15 |
MRC Report |
Doug Buhler |
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5.1
New NC-type Projects |
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5.2
Midterm Reviews |
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5.3
NRSP Budgets |
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5.4 Other Funding Decisions |
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5.5
Other MRC Issues |
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9:45 |
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Break |
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10:00 |
Executive Director's Report |
Arlen Leholm |
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10:30 |
7.0 |
Best Practices Session - Building
Strength Through Collaborations |
All |
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12:00 |
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Lunch |
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1:10 |
8.0 |
ESCOP Science and
Technology Committee |
Steve Pueppke |
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1:30 |
ESCOP
Communication/Marketing Committee/System Implementation |
Arlen Leholm, Wendy
Wintersteen, Bill Ravlin |
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2:00 |
ESCOP Budget and
Legislative Committee |
Steve Slack, Arlen Leholm,
Hunt Shipman (by phone from Cornerstone) |
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10.1 2009
Presidential Budget |
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10.2 Farm Bill
Issues |
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10.3 Next Steps |
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2:30 |
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Break |
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2:45 |
Rural |
Cornelia Flora (by phone) |
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3:15 |
Great Plains
Institute/NCBEC Update |
Brendan Jordan (by phone
from GPI) |
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3:45 |
13.0 |
1994 Update |
Gary Halvorson |
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4:05 |
CSREES Report |
Meryl Broussard |
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4:30 |
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EXECUTIVE
SESSION |
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26-Mar |
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7:00-8:00 |
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Breakfast |
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8:00 |
15.0 |
ESCOP Report |
Steve Pueppke |
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8:15 |
Nominations Report |
Joe Colletti |
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8:30 |
17.0 |
One-Solution Update |
Marshall Martin |
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8:50 |
C-FAR Membership Renewal
Discussion |
Arlen Leholm/Steve Pueppke |
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9:00 |
Resolutions |
Ken Grafton |
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9:10 |
20.0 |
Current SAES Budget
Situations and State Reports, Part 1 |
All |
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9:45 |
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Break |
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10:00 |
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Current SAES Budget
Situations and State Reports, Part 2 |
All |