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“in addition, I would like to clarify the intentions of the Fund for Rural America [FRA] under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act. The FRA specifically designated one-third of the funding go toward research, extension, and education grants that, among other goals, will increase international competitiveness, efficiency, and farm profitability, and conserve and enhance natural resources. Further, the FRA research section clearly encourages interdepartment and interagency cooperation by allowing Federal agencies and national laboratories to be eligible. This is a solid step toward making the most efficient use of limited Federal research resources, and will facilitate new and unique applications of technologies to the agriculture industries. I would like to clarify that research to develop precision agriculture, to apply remote sensing and information management technologies to agriculture, is an example of the type of research that the Secretary of Agriculture should support under the FRA.”