Volume 47 Number 1 Spring 2000Volume 47 Number 1 Spring 2000
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In June of this year the Alabama Agricultural
Experiment Station, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, and
Auburn University will host the first-of-its-kind Agricultural
Summit. In this summit, we hope to develop more direct dialogue
between ag leaders and land-grant institutions in Alabama. AU
President Muse and Provost Walker, and their counterparts at
Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University, will be participants
in this historic meeting. The next step in our plan to more closely connect with ag leaders and producers in Alabama is to host a series of listening sessions around the State. I encourage you to attend these listening sessions, which are scheduled for next October. Then, in January of 2001, we will host an ag summit to include producers and ag leaders, and hopefully establish some innovative opportunities for interaction between our agricultural industry and other industries in the State. By anyone’s standards, Alabama agriculture is facing some challenging times. Some would say we are in a crisis situation. Auburn University has a historic and current stake in agriculture in Alabama. Only through a continuation of the partnerships we have established among land-grant institutions and our commodity leaders will we be able to meet these challenges. Individual producers also play a key role in meeting the challenges facing us in this millennium. Input provided by you at these listening sessions to be held in October is vital to planning for a comprehensive research, teaching, and extension program in agriculture. More about these meetings will be discussed in future issues of Highlights. |
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