Volume 46 Number 2 Summer 1999Volume 46 Number 2 Summer 1999
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Having grown up in South Carolina and having spent my youth working on our family farm, summer takes on a special meaning for me. It is a time of growth and perpetual activity on the farm. I see many parallels to the summer facing us in the Ag Experiment Station. We will be going through the budgeting process, which is always a frenetic exercise, especially in this case when we are trying to do too many thing with too few resources. We are making progress in identifying challenges and opportunities in agriculture in Alabama and developing teams and program approaches to meet these needs. In this regard, we will appreciate your input. We have research stations at 13 sites across the state, and I urge you to visit these stations and talk to the researchers there and share your ideas with them. Or, contact us in the Dean and Director’s Office. To be successful, research has to work in step with those who need the technological advances it produces. We are working diligently to develop these types of relationships, and we will appreciate your help in doing so. We continue to work closely with our commodity groups—and they continue to work together better than at any time in our state’s history. And, we continue building working relationships with our land-grant partners at Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University. These working relationships bode well for the future of agriculture in Alabama, and they will contine to thrive with your support and your input. If you haven’t see Highlights on our internet homepage, I urge you to do so. The address is http://www.ag.auburn.edu/aaes/information/highlights/index.html. One of the projects we will be working on in the future is development of a comprehensive, easy to use agricultural website. This opens all kinds of opportunities for connectivity and interactivity in the future. With your help it should be a productive summer. |
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