A New Role For Extension Agents?

Cooperative Extension agents will have a major role to play in the post-9/11 struggle against bioterrorism.

Kansas State University has received a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service to train the nation’s Cooperative Extension agents and crop advisors to diagnose irregularities in field crops.

The federal government’s decision to fund such training was prompted by the post-9/11 possibility that terrorists could damage the food supply by introducing biological pathogens.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at March 18, 2004 08:38 AM | TrackBack