Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Animal/Dairy/Poultry Science Chairs/Heads Meeting Agenda

January 26-27, 2016

Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 1 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101

Wayne: Initiated the meeting. Mary Beck not in attendance but joined via Skype

Mary Beck is chair, and Jim Strickland is secretary.

Start with discussion on regional projects and add to NIMSS.

Brown: current listing of heads for southern region for email list. Brown will share with Schrick.

S-1032: Connor monitor (not present), no discussion, motion to table to 2017 (Dahl, Coffey), motion passed.

S-1061: Gerard monitor, discussion: meet Jan 6-7 through Orlando with NCC 42, minutes still being put together, Motion (Gerard, Elzer) to continue, motion passed.

S-1064: Bertrand monitor (not present), Wayne forwarded report to Schrick, Motion (Wayne, Gerard) to be continued, no discussion, motion passed.

SCC-81: Noble monitor (not present), comment from Wayne: group meets at SSAS, good asset to SSAS with research presentations on small ruminants, motion (Wayne, Dahl) to continue, send message to start to rewrite now, motion passed.

SCC-84: Dahl monitor, will send Schrick report, have reloaded project with new faculty, motion (Dahl, Rusk) to continue, passed, send money for travel.

SERA 15: Looper monitor (not present), motion to continue (Schrick, Gerard) and passed, will have report sent from Looper if possible, report sent to Schrick from Wayne, should be nominated for multi-state award (Brown will check to see if SERA are eligible).

SERA 41: Schrick monitor, (Schrick, Coffey) motion to continue, passed. Schrick and Phil will add report.

Open forum: Wayne discusses white paper for additional funding.

Schrick initiated discussion on loss of multi state projects (should we meeting as one group?). Wayne: is there an area of focus we should be doing (kinds of research needed in the SE). Loss of swine, etc as an example. Should we be thinking about antibiotic resistance, pre-harvest food safety, granting agencies or grant opportunities may be directing loss, drones and livestock as a possibility (lead by Eric Young), water quality. Money typically used for travel.

Brown, faculty need to be aware that this is an opportunity to work with faculty from other institutions for proposal collaboration. Gerard and Dahl: most young faculty are a part of multistate. Dahl and Schrick, need to meet as one group (next year at Nashville 8:30-10:30).

Wayne: should we rid ourselves of the regional defining for multi state, directed toward Bill. Regional defining is used for administrative descriptors only for funding. Approval process through southern directors only and not all directors across the state (Wayne) even though multistate. Should this change? Unsure of who is western and NE admin?

Timing of the meeting conflicting with IPPE (Wayne). Participation from 1890 schools, dairy (only 3) and poultry (only 6). Wayne: what can we direct toward the directors? John: change of SCC to S.

Brown: VISA and Wage guidelines. Something has to be done. Dahl: can we get some help on the labor wage agreement. Is ALPU doing anything? Brown to bring this issue up at the directors meeting.

Graduate students: lack of students in the pipeline for ANSC faculty positions (Schrick and Green). Why? Lack of education through K-12.

Start up (Brown): 150k-500k

Gerard: federal funding used in P&T evaluation?

Green and Dahl motion to adjourn meeting.