A Base Program Committee will highlight one or two programs per year based on large number of states involvement. Each ANR leader is requested to send significant base programs to. Mike French for inclusion in the Base Program Committee's deliberations. He thanked the group for the South Carolina meeting and indicated that it was a excellent meeting with good work being accomplished. He discussed the desire of the Economic Research Service to discontinue service on marketing and outlook data and indicated that ECOP had requested that they continue to provide this service.
Indications are that the process of shutting down was too far along to readily change.
Title 8 of the Farm Bill was discussed and working groups are developing guidelines for program management. There are three committees working on the plan. Plans of work and reporting are required. The CRIS system is being used by research and more accountability is needed for the Extension plan. Multi-state efforts will be required.