http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/0308ag_testimony.shtml
Competitive, Peer-Reviewed Grants Are Critical to U.S. Agricultural Research
"More of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research funding should go to outside scientists who win competitive grants through a system of peer review, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner told a 7 March Senate hearing on the future of the nation's agricultural research program.
While federal funding formulas have helped produce a fine system of land-grant universities and other important agricultural research facilities over the years, Leshner said, such capacity-building must be accompanied by a greater emphasis on peer-reviewed science, a keystone for progress in agriculture as in other fields.
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