$685,000

Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301

This will provide business training in non-traditional settings that are convenient for working farmers, employment of undergraduate and MBA students, under the supervision of the Center for Entrepreneurship and faculty advisors, to provide training and supportive services to small-scale farmers while gaining real-world business experience, and through partnership with the BRAC Regional Task Force, direct access by program participants to new direct and institutional markets being developed in the region.

$170,000

Rural Development Leadership Network.
P.O Box 98, Prince St. Station
New York, NY 10012

This project will provide 2 fellowships for emerging leaders in rural community development in the 8th District of North Carolina.  The fellowships will include tuition, stipends, travel, educational materials, capacity building, and seed money for community-based field projects and funds for resource people and the development of educational materials.  The project will also will strengthen local leadership, create capacity, attract funding, and support constructive development activities.  A national network will support local leaders with capacity building activities and resources. 

$334,440

North Carolina Department of Agriculture
2 W. Edenton St
Raleigh, NC 27601

The first goal of this project would be to enhance the AHP to exchange information (import data) with Global Vet Link and assure there are adequate fields to store information from the USDA Veterinary Services Process Streamlining (VSPS) USDA. A second step to this project would be to tie the intrastate health certificate information to individual premises in the AHP.
The AHP is a module of the MHTD (www.ncmhtd.com) and is currently being upgraded. Thus, fiscal year 2011 would be a good time to implement changes in traceability and data exchange. The Premises Management module is scheduled to go into production March 2010. Adding a data exchange where intrastate animal movement would be a logical step. With assistance, the Department can continue to protect the food that is consumed in North Carolina and across the nation.
 

$2 million

ARS Research Service
North Carolina Research Campus
150 Research Campus Drive
Kannapolis, NC 28081

This funding would continue work which started with  initial funding provided through USDA in Fiscal Year 2010, ARS scientists in collaboration with researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University will soon start conducting research at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC using state of the art genomic, proteomic and metabolomic biotechnology methods to: (1) design healthier agricultural products; (2) improve health and nutrition, and (3) better understand the impact that diet and exercise have on preventing cancer, type II diabetes and other obesity-related diseases. Research will also be conducted to evaluate how nutrition affects human health on an individual basis and to develop customized solutions that target individual responses to diet and nutrition. Fiscal Year 2011 funding will enable ARS to continue and expand the aforementioned research activities - benefiting taxpayers by advancing public health and creating jobs.

Subcommittee:  Agriculture
Agency:  CSREES
Account:  Extension activities
Program Title: Smith-Lever Act
FY10 Amount: $290 million
President’s Budget Request: $290 million
Request Amount: $350 million

Subcommittee:  Agriculture
Agency:  Rural Utility Service
Account:  Rural Water and waste water disposal programs
Program Title: Circuit Riders
FY10 Amount: $15.0 million
President’s Budget Request: $14 million
Request Amount: $15.49 million


Subcommittee:  Agriculture
Agency:  Farm Service Agency
Account: Grassroots Source Water Protection
Program Title: Grassroots Source Water Protection Program
FY10 Amount: $5 million
President’s Budget Request: $0
Request Amount: $6.4 million


Subcommittee:  Agriculture
Agency:  Rural Utility Service
Account:  Rural Water and waste water disposal programs
Program Title: Rural Water Infrastructure Grants and Loans
FY10 Amount: $568.7 million
President’s Budget Request: $534.4 million
Request Amount: $650 million

Subcommittee:  Agriculture
Agency:  Rural Utilities Service
Account:  Rural electrification loan programs
Program Title: Electric Loan Program
FY10 Amount: $6.5 billion
President’s Budget Request: $4 billion
Request Amount: $6.5 billion