Jim Baird actually said...

When this Subcommittee met a few months ago to hear directly from USDA on research program efficacy, we discussed how agricultural research ...

opening statement

When USDA was created by President Lincoln in 1862, the primary objective of the Department was to 'acquire and to diffuse among the people ...

Today, the land-grant universities have a mission that is threefold: to provide instruction, conduct research, and disseminate the instructi...