Minutes

 

 

 

NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

 

 

STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DIRECTORS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

181st Meeting

 

 

 

March 25 & 26, 2008

 

 

 

Las Vegas, NV

 

 

 

Devonshire/Aquitaine Room

Call-in phone number: 702-597-7079

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time (PDT)

Agenda Item

Topic 

Presenter

25-Mar

8:00

1.0

Call to Order 

Ken Grafton

 

2.0

Approval of Sept 2007 Minutes (http://www.wisc.edu/ncra/Sept2007.htm)

 

3.0

Adoption of the Agenda 

 

4.0

Executive Committee Report and Interim Actions of the Chair

8:15

5.0

MRC Report 

Doug Buhler

 

 

5.1  New NC-type Projects

 

 

 

5.2 Midterm Reviews

 

 

 

5.3 NRSP Budgets

 

 

 

5.4 Other Funding Decisions

 

 

 

5.5 Other MRC Issues

 

9:45

 

Break

10:00

6.0

Executive Director's Report

Arlen Leholm

10:30

7.0

Best Practices Session - Building Strength Through Collaborations

All

12:00

 

Lunch

1:10

8.0

ESCOP Science and Technology Committee

Steve Pueppke

1:30

9.0

ESCOP Communication/Marketing Committee/System Implementation

Arlen Leholm, Wendy Wintersteen, Bill Ravlin

2:00

10.0

ESCOP Budget and Legislative Committee

Steve Slack, Arlen Leholm, Hunt Shipman (by phone from Cornerstone)

 

 

  10.1  2009 Presidential Budget

 

 

  10.2  Farm Bill Issues

 

 

  10.3  Next Steps

2:30

 

Break

2:45

11.0

Rural Development Center Report

Cornelia Flora (by phone)

3:15

12.0

Great Plains Institute/NCBEC Update

Brendan Jordan (by phone from GPI)

3:45

13.0

1994 Update

Gary Halvorson

4:05

14.0

CSREES Report

Meryl Broussard

4:30

 

EXECUTIVE SESSION 

 

26-Mar

7:00-8:00

 

Breakfast

8:00

15.0

ESCOP Report

Steve Pueppke

8:15

16.0

Nominations Report

Joe Colletti

8:30

17.0

One-Solution Update

Marshall Martin

8:50

18.0

C-FAR Membership Renewal Discussion

Arlen Leholm/Steve Pueppke

9:00

19.0

Resolutions

Ken Grafton

9:10

20.0

Current SAES Budget Situations and State Reports, Part 1

All

9:45

 

Break

10:00

 

Current SAES Budget Situations and State Reports, Part 2

All