However, the Administration's budget proposal for FY99 would eliminate these items . We ask Congress to maintain these items of critical importance to barley, wheat, and oats in FY99 . These are the actual research stakeholders who are trying to maintain and expand viable economic enterprises. Funding of competitive based programs must not be at the expense of valuable directed research. It also generates new knowledge regarding plant genome structure and function, and the development of biotechnological tools that will lay the groundwork for future breakthroughs.
All tools are publicly available, free of charge.
This support would be appreciated, however, its not enough to get the job done. This plan will be provided to you as soon as it is available. The funding would be used to create a new ARS barley pathologist position at the USDA-ARS Northern Crop Science Laboratory to work on scab and other fungal diseases. After five years of severe economic hardship from this disease, growers in the Dakotas and Minnesota are going out of business, and U.S. barley and wheat markets are being lost to Canada. The federal government is losing substantial tax revenue.