Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

David Morrison gave an update on SAAESD. The new Director is Dr. Eric Young and new location is Raleigh, NC. The website is http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/saaesd. New nomenclature was reviewed with a handout explaining changes, e.g. SCC Southern Coordinating Committee) replaces IEG and SAC is the new acronym for Advisory Committees. The NIMSS system has been updated so everyone can register and access the system. Entry of the Appendix E information can be performed by the faculty member directly as a participant in a project. Faculty still must fill out AD 416/417 forms for spending authority on a project. LEAD 21 is a new leadership development program that replaces ESCOP/ACOP and has been combined with the previous extension leadership program referred to as NELD.. This is three-phase training that can be very valuable for individuals new to leadership positions. An overview of the SAES funding situation was given using information from the so-called Counterfactual Study. Basically our state appropriations and federal formula funds have been declining as a percentage of total SAES funds and competitive grants and industry funds have borne any increases in funding. Considerable discussion ensued regarding issues surrounding federal funding. Peter Burfening gave a CSREES report. His email address has changed to pburfening@csrees.usda.gov. The NRI Program  The Farm Bill authorized up to 20% of funds for integrated projects (related to old IFAFS) and USDA is serious about doing this. For example, the Animal Reproduction area is soliciting proposals in Dairy Infertility but no integrated projects are solicited in Animal Genomics. Integrated proposals integrate two of the three components from research, outreach or instruction. At least one objective must address a second component. Some panel members will have extension or instruction appointments. Electronic grant submission for USDA may be a couple years away. Faculty are encouraged to be conscientious when filling out AD 416/417 forms. CRIS reports are taken very seriously so encourage faculty to do a good job of reporting research results, impact, and productivity. Project Reports: S-285 (Mike Lacy  monitor)  No report. SDC 305 is in the rewrite phase and project will terminate 09-05. S-292 (Don Connor  monitor)  Has been approved as a development committee (SDC 311) so the group has started rewriting the project. This is a long-standing committee that has been productive. Have a number of young researchers involved. S-299 (David Morrison  monitor)  Project is in its fifth year. There has been some fallout from the group but they seem to be making progress. Recent SAES 422 has good list of impacts and publications. SDC 312 is the rewrite committee and the project will terminate 09-05. Recommend support of the project. Discussed multi-state cooperation among members. S-1000 (Bob Harmon - monitor)  Participants to be complemented for meeting with the National Center for Manure and Waste Management. Review of accomplishments and impacts shows significant progress is being made. It appears that research publication productivity is good and some evidence of multi-state cooperation in the 61page annual report. Suggest the committee submit an abbreviated summary of accomplishments (3-page) with attached list of current publications. Project terminates 09-06. Recommend continued support. S-1005 (Don Wagner  monitor) and S-1006 (Mike Lacy  monitor)  These two projects are meeting together to share information. Dr. Morrison reported that the groups met together in baton Rouge in January but he had no further information. SAC-2 requested that reports be submitted to Bob Harmon so we can complete our report. It was questioned why there were two groups if they meet together. S-1008 (Bruce Jenny  monitor)  This has been a long-standing, productive project. They are addressing objectives and maintaining good interaction with industry. Recommend continued support of the project. Also recommend breaking out publications by category. S-1012 (Alan Mathew  monitor)  Strong group that interacts with NCCC-42. Have guest speakers and have continued in a cohesive manner. Stress standardization of data sets across stations. Generate multi-state surveys. Publication record appears to be very good and have generated some multi-state publications. Have put out a call for other collaborators. Recommend continued support. S-1013 (formerly S-277)  Dr. Kiser (monitor) was unable to attend so Dr. Morrison (AA) gave a report. The project met in El Reno, OK in 2004 so it has not completed a full year. Performance of sub-tropically adapted beef breeds and genetic selection for parasite resistance and temperament are the objectives. There is some concern about Objective 1 because there appears to be only one participating state currently. Objectives 2 and 3 are in good shape. There has been some discussion on how to accomplish Objective 4 on storage of germplasm (DNA). The group works well together. Recommend continued support. SCC 72 (Paul Humes  monitor)  No report was found. Dr. Morrison recalled the group usually has invited speakers and meets jointly with the SAAS annual meeting. This is a very productive, interactive group that involves graduate students with usually about 15 participants. It was recommended that a report be sent to Bob Harmon. SCC 75 (Glen Hembry  monitor)  About 30 people met at the annual meeting with a mix of extension and research faculty. There appears to be no move to form a multi-state project. Apparently no report has been files. There is a great deal of interest by this group. Request that a report be filed. SERA 15 (Steve Nickerson  monitor)  About 13 Southern state are participating in the project. The group includes researchers and extension specialists. To meet the five objectives, the major activity of the SERA-015 group is to organize the Annual Southern Dairy Conference (SDC). The conference program meets both research and extension components of this IEG, providing for industry contact and several opportunities for input from this clientele group. The 2004 SDC program (held at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, Atlanta, GA on 2/9/04-2/10/04) included ~150 participants ranging from individuals working in the areas of production, marketing, manufacturing, academia, and government, and covered numerous general topic areas as oral presentations and poster sessions. (Report submitted by Dr. Nickerson via email.) General: It is the request from SAC-2 that each project committee develop a concise 2-3 page summary of the years progress and attach a list of publications for that year. Each committee should get reports posted on the web in a timely fashion. Some projects have yet to post reports. General Business: The following potential program topics were suggested for the 2006 Animal Science Department Heads Meeting: · Regionalization in extension, research, instruction o Both multi-state and multi-institution within state · National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) update · Administrative organization of research farms  potential survey · Recruiting efforts, e.g. CD, web, etc. · Distance learning efforts Proposed date for 2006 meeting is January 24-25, 2006 before the International Poultry Exposition at the GA World Congress Center in Atlanta. Don Conner, Mike Lacy, and Steve Nickerson volunteered (or were volunteered) to help coordinate with the US Poultry & Egg Association. Respectfully submitted, Bob Harmon Secretary SAC-2