Ag economists told to work on edge
ITHACA, N.Y. - Lucinda A.
Noble, director of Cornell
Cooperative Extension, has
challenged agricultural
economists involved in extension
to work “(hi the edge” so that they
can have the greatest impact as
researchers and educators.
“I hope you have the spirit and
willingness to work on the
edge...for it is at the edges of our
professions that new ideas are
born,” Noble told ag economists
taking part in the recent 75th
anniversary meeting of the
American Agricultural Economics
Association (AAEA) at Cornell
University.
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Noble said that this is a time like issues. The meeting was hosted by
no other to take advantage of faculty in the department of
opportunities to carry out research • agricultural economics in the New
for the public good, to educate state College of Agriculture
students, and to disseminate amj i.jfp Sciences at Cornell. The
research-based knowledge to academic, government, and
agricultural and consumer business economics in AAEA have
publics. common interests in the economics
“Social changes, advancing agriculture, natural resources,
technology, and the role of and rural development,
agriculture in the national and Noble told the AAEA delegates
world economy offer opportunities Cooperative Extension needs
that have not occurred before in | 0 increase the effectiveness of its
their present magnitude,” she delivery system in these times of
said. shrinking resources and outside
More than 1,750 AAEA members funding,
met in Ithaca Aug. 5-8 to take part “Extension professionals at all
in nearly 100 conference sessions levels in the system need to be
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more knowledgeable and skillful in,
using the most effective program
delivery strategies, including
electronic technology,” she said.
To help achieve these goals,
Noble suggested that Cooperative
Extension increase its
collaboration with the private
sector, and expand its network of
volunteers.
Noble, who has been director of
Cornell Cooperative Extension
since 1978, served on the 22-
member USDA panel that looked
into the future of the federal
system. The committee’s report
“Extension in the 80s” made
recommendations to guide the
future mission, scope, priorities,
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and policies of the county-state
federal cooperative venture.
Noble added that Cooperative
Extension needs both generalists
and specialists on its staff to insure
that programs developed in the
counties that are based on iden
tified needs and carefully selected
priorities will continue to be the
cornerstone of Extension
programs.
“Extension’s strength continues
to be the involvement of people
where they live and work. It is a
partnership enterprise in the
truest sense of the word,’’ she
explained.
in offering her challenge to the
agricultural economists, Noble
concluded: “It is the people’s
system and we are the guardians
as faculty and program ad
ministrators.”
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