All ag research at WSU may again be at risk

All ag research at WSU may again be at risk

Washington Ag Today November 23, 2010 Washington state’s budget deficit situation has put an idea to eliminate all state funding for agricultural research at Washington State University back on the table in Olympia. That idea first surfaced earlier this year during a legislative session. Dan Bernardo, Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences, told last week’s convention of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers, that “the embers (of that idea) are still there and it is flaring up now.” Bernardo described the total elimination of state research funding as a very, very real threat.

Outside grants may fund the research done by WSU scientists but Dean Bernardo says it is the state funds that pay the salaries of people doing the work. Also the state funds provide the match required by federal grants. At risk is 26 million dollars, 21 million of which goes to WSU’s Ag Research Center.

Now the Stockland Livestock report.

“This is Jack McGuiness with Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. We have 11-hundred head of cattle on our market on Monday. We are going to call the cow market fully steady, maybe just a little stronger on the bigger, better yielding cows. Most of those cows trading in the mid to high 50s and the lower grade cows 40 to 50 cents. Bulls topped at 71 and that’s about steady. Feeder cattle, a little weaker undertone on the heavier cattle but fully steady on all the lighter weight feeder cattle weighing 600 pounds and under. We will have a horse sale this weekend. Cattle sales every Monday. That’s Stockland Livestock. We are under new ownership here at Davenport, Washington. Thanks for listening.

Thanks Jack.

I’m Bob Hoff on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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