Here in Nebraska, there is lots of talk about listening to the people and
designing an extension program to serve their needs. Well, it seems to me
that the land grant universities have been doing that for many years and
rural areas, at least the rural area I live in, has been declining in turn.
Maybe it is because extension, even more so than the population they
serve, resists the change needed to make real progress in those areas that
come up over and over in their need assessments, such as ag profitability,
rural quality of life, and natural resource conservation. Extension and
the university see themselves as mainstream and mainstreet, and so find it
hard to take any action that will direct them away from the current food
system, Walmart, and McDonalds.
Again, I concur with what Bill has said, we must decide where we want to
go, then decide which tools have the most potential to take us there, and
use them.
Respectfully,
Andy McGuire, Extension Educator
AMCGUIRE1@UNL.EDU
P.O. Box 736 office 402-254-2280
Hartington NE 68739 fax 402-254-6891
University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension
On Tuesday, May 11, 1999 6:18 PM, Bill Liebhardt
[SMTP:wcliebhardt@ucdavis.edu] wrote:
>
> As a native of Wisconsin I found the posts of Julie and Laura raising
> questions that are at the core of what it is to be in the land grant
system
> and what our role is in developing information and getting it out. I
have
> often raised questions about where we are going with GMO's and that whole
>
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