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The Highlights from the November 2009 NCR-SARE Administrative Council meeting are now online. The 2010 Call for Graduate Student Grant Proposals is now available. The deadline for 2010 Graduate Student Grant Proposals is 4:30PM CDT Thursday, January 28, 2010. Results of the Retrospective Evaluation of the NCR-SARE Research & Education Grant Program are now available online. A PowerPoint slideshow detailing the NCR-SARE grant programs is now available. (PDF) The Winter/Spring 2009 issue of Field Notes is now available online. Barbara Norman, a third generation farmer on her blueberry farm in Van Buren County, MI, has been awarded the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program’s (NCR-SARE) first ever Diversity Grant for $100,000. Take a look Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant's publication, Reaping the Rewards of Our SARE Investment. The goal of this publication is to share the innovative work that Illinois NCR-SARE recipients have done over the years- answering the "so what?" question. Cavanaugh-Grant is the SARE Illinois State Coordinantor. We are pleased to announce an NCR-SARE web page with information en Español. Take a look at a curriculum that has been developed for high school students, called "Toward a Sustainable Agriculture" . This curriculum was funded in part by a grant from NCR-SARE. Want to learn more about completing a NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher grant proposal? Watch a video, "The Basics of a Solid SARE Grant Application" presented by Jim Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Educator and Wyatt Fraas, Center of Rural Affairs. You must install RealPlayer in order to view this video. Click here for a free download of RealPlayer.
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