Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics

The Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics is a high-ranking official within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides leadership and oversight for the Agricultural Research Service, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Economic Research Service, National Agricultural Library, National Agricultural Statistics Service.

The Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has Federal leadership responsibility for Advancing scientific knowledge related to agriculture through research, extension, and education.

REE delivers the scientific discovery mission of USDA through:

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the largest intramural research agency of USDA. ARS has a workforce of around 8,000 employees, including 2,500 life and physical scientists who represent a wide range of disciplines and who work at more than 100 locations across the country and at five overseas laboratories. The ARS research agenda is broad, with about 1,200 research projects organized under 4 major program areas: Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Quality; Animal Production and Protection; Natural Resources and Sustainable Agricultural Systems; and Crop Production and Protection.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is USDA’s primary extramural research funding agency. Its mission is to advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, and human health and wellbeing by funding targeted research, education, and extension projects and programs, some of which are specific to the Land-Grant University System, others open to participation by other partner organizations.
The Economic Research Service (ERS) is USDA’s primary source of economic information and economic and social science research. ERS’ mission is to anticipate economic and policy issues related to food, agriculture, the environment, and rural development, and conduct research that guides public program and policy decisions.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is committed to providing timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. Its reports cover virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture, including production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers.

The position is vacant as of March 2017. Dr. Catherine Woteki was Under Secretary, as well as the Department's Chief Scientist,^[1] after she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 16, 2010 until December 2016.

On July 19, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Sam Clovis of Iowa for the position. At the time, Clovis was Senior White House Advisor to the Department of Agriculture and was formerly chief policy advisor and national co-chair of the Trump-Pence campaign.^[2]^[3] According to Ricardo Salvador, Food and Environment Program Director for the science advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, Clovis lacks the traditional technological and scientific background of the post and is a self-proclaimed climate change skeptic.^[4]

References

↑ "Dr. Cathie Woteki, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics". REE Biographies. U.S. Department of Agriculture. July 29, 2016. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts". White House Office of the Press Secretary. July 19, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
↑ Heller, Marc (July 19, 2017). "Updated: Trump pick for USDA science post has drawn darts for lack of technical background". Science. AAAS. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
↑ Eberhardt, Robin (July 20, 2017). "Trump picks climate change doubter for USDA science job". The Hill. Retrieved August 10, 2017.

Agencies under the United States Department of Agriculture
Headquarters: Jamie L. Whitten Building Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Young, Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment	Forest Service Office of Environmental Markets
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development*	Rural Housing Service Rural Utilities Service Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services	Food and Nutrition Service Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety	Food Safety and Inspection Service
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics	Agricultural Research Service Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Economic Research Service National Agricultural Library National Agricultural Statistics Service National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs	Agricultural Marketing Service Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs**	Foreign Agricultural Service Commodity Credit Corporation
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation**	Farm Service Agency Risk Management Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Natural Resources Conservation Service
Reports directly to the Secretary of Agriculture *Created from Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

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