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GAO-07-1171R 1 (2007-09-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaupc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Sai Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 13, 2007 The Honorable Tom Harkin Chairman Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate The Honorable Herb Kohl Chairman Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Subject: USDA: Information on Classical Plant and Animal Breeding Activities This report responds to your request for information on activities related to classical plant and animal breeding-creating an organism with desirable traits through controlled mating and selection without the insertion of genes from another species-that occurs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Within USDA, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) are the primary scientific research agencies involved in classical plant and animal breeding activities. ARS has more than 100 research facilities in the United States and abroad and received about $1.3 billion in funding for fiscal year 2006. ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems, and its research partners include universities; crop, horticultural, and livestock producer and industry organizations; state, federal, and other research agencies or institutions; private companies; and international agricultural research centers. CSREES, which received about $1.2 billion in funding for fiscal year 2006, has the primary responsibility for providing linkages between the federal and state components of a broad-based, national agricultural research, extension, and higher education system. CSREES provides funding for projects conducted in partnership with the state agricultural experiment stations, state cooperative extension system, land grant universities, colleges, and other research and education institutions. As you have noted, classical breeding is important to agricultural producers as they seek to meet changing environmental conditions and shifting consumer demands. You raised concerns about the difficulty of quantifying public resources being dedicated to classical plant and animal breeding and asked us questions about these resources. We found that generally, USDA data show a gradual increase in ARS classical plant breeding funding over the past 10 years, while funding for its classical GAO-07-1171R Classical Breeding

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