NDSU Extension Serviceand

Research Extension Centers

Fall Conference 2009Duane Hauck

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Objectives1. Identify faculty/staff who may be interested in an administrative

leadership position2. Identify emerging leaders within the organization3. Provide an environment to learn more about the administrative

roles of the Extension Leadership Team (ELT)4. Bring new perspectives to existing ELT members

• Two interns at a time for one-year terms beginning Oct. 1• Applications invited from all full-time Extension agents, area

specialists and state specialists via e-mail• 10 applicants this year; Lynette Flage and Ken Hellevang chosen• Their term is Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept. 30, 2010

Administrative Intern Program

Applications invited via an e-mail to all Extension employees in August 2009

Three selected for 2010 class:• Gayle Gette• Sue Isbell• Joel Ransom

2010 NELD North Central

2009-2011 Extension Budget Enhancements

Description Final Action

ImplementationStatus

Crop disease management outreach $52,332 0.3 FTE Ext/0.7 FTE AES plant pathologist at Carrington REC; applicant screening began

9/21/09

Operating support $300,000 Distributed 7/1/09

4-H leadership education and camping $220,000 1.0 FTE state specialist + operating; search under way

Agribusiness enterprise and rural development

$240,000 1.0 FTE state specialist + operating; search under way

Agents-in-training $100,000 2.0 FTE; Stutsman County interviews done 10/8/09 and Ward County interviews 10/22/09

State Soil Conservation Committee $100,000 Funded additional SCD projects

Junior Master Gardener program $40,000 Had summer programs in Grand Forks, Emmons, McLean, Cass and Stark-Billings counties. Fall

planning under way.

Parenting Resource Centers $125,000 Salary support allocated for five parenting resource coordinators.

TOTAL $1,177,332

Legislator/Commissioner Gatherings Hosted by County Extension Offices2008

4/24/08

1/23/08 2/27/08

3/11/08

3/12/08 5/15/08

3/26/083/11/08

3/20/08

5/22/08

4/23/08

1/22/08

4/25/08

1/24/08

5/2/083/18/08

FY 2010 Federal Budget ($millions)

Targeted Enhancements FY 2009 FY 2010Agriculture and Food Research Initiative 201.504 262.482Smith Lever 3(b) and 3(c) 288.548 297.500Hatch Act 207.106 215.000Evans-Allen Program (Research) 45.504 48.5001890 Institutions Extension 40.150 42.677McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry 27.535 29.000Higher Education Challenge Grants 5.654 5.654National Needs Fellowship Grants 3.859 3.8591994 Institutions Extension 3.321 4.3211994 Institutions Research 1.610 1.805EFNEP 66.155 68.070Children, Youth & Families at Risk 8.182 8.412eXtension 1.500 1.750

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is an agencywithin the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—part of the executive branch of the federal government. Congress created NIFA through the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. NIFA replaced the former Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) that had been in existence since 1994.

Launched Oct. 8, 2009

NIFA is one of four USDA agencies that make up its Research, Education and Economics (REE) mission area. The other three agencies are:

• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)• Economics Research Service (ERS)• National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Four institutes within NIFA have been identified:

1. Institute of Food Production and Sustainability2. Institute of Bioenergy, Climate and Environment3. Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition4. Institute of Youth and Community Development

Key issue areas identified within NIFA:

• Global food security and hunger• Climate change• Sustainable energy• Childhood obesity• Food safety

5/21/09 w/Roger

6/3/09 w/Margaret

6/8-9/09 w/Brad

7/8/09 w/Roger

7/7/09 w/Roger

8/10-11/09 w/Brad

10/6/09 w/Mike

10/5/09 w/Mike

53 office visits in 12 months53 office visits in 12 months

SF3510

Twenty-one counties reported 61 separate events that have happened or will happen between Sept. 20 and Nov. 19, 2009.

Approximately 2,500 youth will be reached.

4-H National Youth Science DayOct. 7, 2009 Biofuel Blast Experiment

Are You Ready? The College Transition Program

Center for 4-H Youth Development collaborating with NDSU President’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Program designed to help students and their parents plan for a smooth transition from high school to college

Curriculum created by University of Wisconsin Extension

Extension staff in these counties received training last week to involve community partners in implementing the program across the state: Barnes, Bowman, Grand Forks, McHenry, Morton, Pierce, Ramsey, Ransom, Rolette, Sargent, Sioux, Stark/Billings and Ward.

• 187 NDSU users have eXtension IDs

• 40 NDSU users have joined a Community of Practice

• Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 - eXtension Director Dan Cotton coming to NDSU to help us all become more fully engaged with eXtension as a partner in the Be, Grow, Create initiative. Cotton will lead hands-on training with

• area and state specialists in person and via Wimba in the morning• Extension agents via Wimba after lunch• institutional team via videoconference later in the afternoon