Bipartisan bill calls for increased USDA research funding

Senators Dick Durbin (D, IL) and Jerry Moran (R, KS), reintroduced legislation that would require a five percent annual funding increase each year for the next ten years for research activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). With federal agriculture research investments on the decline, the America Grows Act would restore the United States’ commitment to publicly funded agriculture research at USDA. The funding boost would go to:

• National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Economic Research Service (ERS)
• National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

ASA, CSSA, and SSSA joined over 100 other organizations in supporting the bill.

Email your Senators today to ask them to co-sponsor the bill.