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2. The US Department of Agriculture Research, Education, and Economics Mission Area
2. The US Department of Agriculture Research, Education, and Economics Mission Area
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According to the most recent strategic plan, the mission of REE programs is to create a safe, sustainable, competitive US food and fiber system and strong, healthy communities, families, and youth through integrated research, analysis, and education (USDA, 2002~. In the context of the federal research establishment, REE falls at the interface of research areas linked to a variety of other federal agencies, including food, health, nutrition, and disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health)
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The REE agencies are required to work with USDA action and regulatory agencies: the Agricultural Marketing Service; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the Foreign Agricultural Service; the Food and Nutrition Service; the Farm Service Agency; the Food Safety and Inspection Service; the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration; the Natural Resources Conservation Service; the Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and the Rural Utilities Service. The 1994 reorganization brought four agencies into the REE mission area: the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
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"Strengthen capacity of institutions of higher education to develop the skills of the Nation's workforce." The REE mission area's strategic plan delineates five desired outcomes and associated strategic objectives (see Box 2-1; USDA, 2002~. The REE strategic plan also assigns resources to the five program objectives in the following distribution: 25% each to the first and second, 16% to the third and fourth, and 18% to the fifth (based on FY 1996 appropriations)
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. Agency research focuses on achieving the five broad goals identified in the REE Strategic Plan (see Box 2-1)
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. The Cooperative Extension System is a national education network of partners from CSREES, land-grant university cooperative extension services, and cooperative extension services in the 3,150 counties of the United States.
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Economic Research Service ERS is the primary intramural social-science unit in USDA. It was created in 1961 out of the now-defunct Bureau of Agricultural Economics, which was authorized principally by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (US Congress, 1946~.
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Among the specific NASS activities that contribute to those processes are the supply of data used for the world agricultural supply and demand estimates, the Export Enhancement Program, the Conservation Reserve Program, the determination of milk prices, grazing fees (on publicly owned land) , and USDA's cropinsurance program (USDA, 2000d, 2001b)
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2000c. Economic Research Service Strategic Plan, 20002005.
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