Soy News March 2000
Arkansas Board Allocates Funds for Research
The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board met on February 25 to consider research proposals and make allocations of research funds for the 1999-2000 fiscal year. The Board expected to make significant cuts from previous years' funding levels due to the shortage of funds resulting from reduced production and low prices during the year. The total reduction from previous year funding was not as significant as expected due to the implementation of minimum assessment credits by the United Soybean Board. The credits are provided for in the National Soybean Checkoff Act and Order, and are designed to prevent significant disruptions in state programs during times of low production or price. The provision allows states to take a credit against the remittance to USB in years when the state's share of collections falls below the state's five-year average of collections prior to the implementation of the national program. Arkansas' total collections for 1999 were significantly below the five-year average and, therefore, the Board was allowed to take a credit of approximately $140,000. With the credit program in place, the Board set research funding for the year at $958,452, down from $1.1 million in the previous year. The specific projects funded and the amount for each project are included in the statement of allocations which is provided in this edition of "Soynews".
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board Research Project Allocations
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IMPROVING SOYBEAN PROFITABILITY
Low input Nonirrigated Soybean Production $37,366
Rotational and Tillage Systems to Control
Soybean Cyst Nematode $25,020
Rice and Soybean Production on Soils Adversely
Affected by Poor Irrigation and Water Quality $55,711
Integration of Resistant Soybeans with a
Biological Control Agent for Suppression
of the Soybean Cyst Nematode $37,248
Economics of Soybean Production $36,000
Evaluation and Incorporation of Varieties
(Transgenic-Roundup Ready and Conventional)
in Differing Arkansas Soybean Production
Environments and Cropping Systems $40,000
Low Input Soybeans on Heavy Clay $6,000
Helping Arkansas Rice Farmers Exploit Market
Opportunities by Improved Use of Soybean,
Wheat, and Corn in Rice Rotations $27,240
Effects of Tillage, Planting Date, Plant
Population and Genotype on Severity
of Charcoal Rot in Soybean $28,157
Developing Cost-Effective Weed
Management Systems $82,439
Weed Interference and Weed Management $42,050
Soybean Variety Testing $10,000
Breeding Improved Varieties and Germplasm $44,306
Field Screening of New Soybean Cultivars
for Performance Against Major Diseases and
Nematodes $47,828
Screening for Resistance to Phomopsis Seed
Infection in Soybean Cultivars and Germplasm
to Improve Seed Quality $17,000
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BASE PROGRAMS
Weed Biology/Ecology $14,827
Soybean Adaptation to Restrictive
Soil Environments $25,700
Soybean Research Verification Program $90,798
Improving Technology Transfer for
Profitable and Sustainable Soybean
Production $51,993
The Relationship of the Environment
to Sudden Death Syndrome and
Stem Canker $39,022
Molecular Separation of Races
of Soybean Cyst Nematodes $45,080
Improving the Adaptation and
Diversity of Arkansas Soybean $52,870
Soybean Drought Tolerance Research $55,466
NEW AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS
Investigation and Application of
Whole Farm Systems Approach to
Crop Production Management $10,695
Screening of Soybean Varieties for Genistein
(Cancer Preventing Substance), Daidzein
(Osteoporosis Preventing) and Producing
Enriched Protein Concentrate and Tofu $35,636
TOTAL $958,452
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Checkoff to Capitalize on White House Initiative
President Bill Clinton's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2001 includes a new initiative to accelerate the development and use of biobased technologies, including soy-based products. The goal of the initiative is to increase the viability of alternative energy sources, help meet environmental challenges, diversify and strengthen the rural economy and, most important to farmers, support farm incomes. The initiative provides an increase of more than $240 million over the 2000 budget for the development and use of biobased products. The Department of Energy will receive $49 million and the U.S. Department of Agriculture another $149 million for stepped-up efforts. The budget allocation would fund President Clinton's executive order of August, 1999, which aims to triple the use of biobased products and bioenergy in the United States by 2010. According to the White House, tripling America's use of biobased products and bioenergy by 2010 would generate $20 billion a year in new income for farmers and rural communities.
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