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Mark Jackowitz's avatar

As with everything you write Andrea, the average person has no knowledge that these organizations exist and what their purposes are. When we saw the movie called “Kiss the Ground“ it totally changed our way of thinking about our interaction with food and soil. It cannot always be just about me, but it has to be about how I engage with the world around me. We all eat and we all expect that there will be food on the table and your article points out one of the many agencies that is necessary to support best practices. Reality is that it is more cost-effective to farmers and therefore to us as well.

Thank you.

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Andrea Chasen's avatar

When Elissa initially decided on her work on environmental matters, she studied soil. Why, because as she told me, everything starts with great soil. Words of wisdom. Thank you for your thoughts.

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Mary E Cotham's avatar

Thank you Andrea for bringing this agency to my attention. My father worked all of his career in agricultural research and education so this is of great interest to me. You have inspired me to write an email to senators Blackburn and Hagerty as well as representative Ogles advocating that they restore funding and staffing to this agency.

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Andrea Chasen's avatar

Thank you. And your activism is inspiring me. So many cuts to so many critical agencies.

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