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Colorado Sunflower Administrative Committee
7100 South Clinton Street, Suite 120, Centennial CO 80112
Tel: 303.721.3300 Fax: 303.721.7555 Email: aborkowski@coloradowheat.org
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To: • Weld County Commissioners Office
From: R.F. Meyer, Executive Director, CSAC
Date: February 23, 2009
Subject: • CSU Extension Programs
I am writing in support of continuing the Colorado State University Cooperative
Extension office's Agricultural Education program. In light of the fact that Weld County
currently generates in excess of $1 billion in agricultural related economic activity, I
question reductions in programs that impact this enterprise. The local CSU office is a
conduit for new technological information generated from research and applied to the
farm. Losing this information pipeline and the personnel to decode it locally, will dearly
put some Weld County agriculturalists at competitive disadvantages during production
seasons. There is no substitute for local, unbiased production assistance.
Therefore, the Colorado Sunflower Administrative Committee and its 200,000 acre
Eastern Colorado membership opposes discontinuing the CSU Cooperative Extension's
Agricultural program.
Sincerely,
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Ron F. Meyer
Executive Director
2009-0539
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