National Dairy Board Reviews Research Spending
ARLINGTON, VA. Dairy
fanners checkoff dollars are used
for lots of activities, all aimed at
increasing the bottom line of
income statements at the farm
level. “After advertising, product
and nutrition research sees the
largest chunk of the National
Dairy Promotion and Research
Board’s promotion dollars at
$10.9 million or 14.6 percent of
the program budget,” explains
Harold Reiff, Indiana dairy farmer
and chairman of the National
Dairy Board’s dairy foods and
nutrition research committee.
Research falls into two catego
ries: dairy foods which looks ,for
new products, packages or techno
logies to make better products and'
nutrition which explores the nutri
ent content of dairy foods and the
effects of their consumption on
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human health. Dairy farmers fund
research in various ways through
NDB. Some research is carried out
at six dairy food research centers
or three nutrition institutes across
the U.S. Other projects are funded
through directed research and
competitive grants programs,
Reiff explains further.
In its competitive grants prog 1 *
rams, NDB organizes an advisory
committee of scientists to review
and evaluate the scientific quality
of research proposals. The panel
of scientists commits its time
twice a year to review proposals
for NDB. It-will meet Feb. 27-28
in Chicago to review 65 proposals
and 22 letters of intent submitted
by researchers from across the
U.S. Proposals are thorough plans
detailing exactly how the project
will proceed and what the research
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is expected to accomplish. Letters
of intent are brief summaries to
see if NDB might be interested in
funding an area of research.
Researchers submitting a letter of
intent judged to have potential for
helping dairy farmers arc asked to
prepare a full proposal on the idea.
“The- committee helps rate the
best proposals the ones with the
most scientific merit. The scien
tists determine of the objectives
are realistic and if the methods
outlined in the proposal will really
accomplish what the researchers
have set out to do. They also
determine if the budget is ade
quate and if the researcher has a
clear enough understanding to do
the project and complete it with
sound results,” says Bob Bursey,
head of NDFB’s dairy foods and
nutrition research program.
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“After the scientists’ results are
tallied, the dairy farmers who
serve on NDB’s research commit
tee review the proposals and rat
ings. recommending use of check
off dollars only to fund those pro
jects most likely to eventually sell
more dairy products,” Reiff says.
This year’s Science Advisory
Committee consists of Bob Mar
shall, University of Missouri; Bob
Bremel, University of Wisconsin;
Harry Farrell, USDA; Floyd
Schanbacher, Ohio Agricultural
Research and Development Cen
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Georgia; Bruce Harte, Michigan
State University; Mike Mangino,
The Ohio State University: Don
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