A productive and profitable future for American agriculture based on a research program that correctly anticipates changes and provides the tools for producers to adapt to them

Mission

Develop and provide adaptation, mitigation, and management strategies to the individual farm, ranch, and rural community, and to natural resource decision-makers to allow them to derive optimal benefit from the positive aspects of global change and deal effectively with the detrimental effects.

The research components of this program are:

• Carbon Cycle and Carbon Storage
• Trace Gases
• Agricultural Ecosystem Impacts
• Changes in Weather and the Water Cycle at Farm, Ranch, and Regional Scales