Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NCDC226 Project: EFFECTS OF CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ON BEEF CATTLE Meeting Minutes Date and location: January 13, 2011 - Lied Conference Center Nebraska City, Nebraska Attendees: Via Skype: John Gaughan (Univ. QLD, Australia), Anna Bell (MO) and Ernie Minton (KSU). In person: Robert Weaber (MO), Brad Scharf (MO), Don Spiers (MO), John Harington (KSU), Lily Edwards (KSU), Terry Mader (NE). Overview of Discussions: Dr. Minton provided an overview of current status of AFRI activity and funding opportunities. This was followed by an additional discussion of the potential for funding within the climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture program area. John Harrington provided an update on current publications available on Effects of climate change in agricultural. Agenda items that were discussed for the duration of the meeting included: AFRI priorities, how to involve other disciplines on an as need basis, various objectives and linkages between the disciplines represented at the meeting, so what  why is this project important to the industry, stakeholder participation, linkages to other AFRI funded projects, how will the Australian connection fit, logic model development, funding and resource allocation, who can do what, and how will participants interact to accomplish needed objectives. Towards the end of the meeting Anna Bell provided an overview of how the education/youth/4-H component of this project will be integrated with the research and extension components. Discussion was excellent and interaction among all disciplines was outstanding. Action items for the group for next step. Send to Drs. Spiers and Mader one to three pages total the following items for your topic area: Brief Introduction, including Problem and Justification Objectives Research Methods Materials and supplies Budget, labor, benefits supplies etc without overhead Paragraph on your expertise. Proposed date of next meeting. March 23 at Nebraska City

Many of the participants are members of W1173 and are considering the possibility of holding additional NCDC226 discussions at the W1173 meeting.