SERA018: Rice Technical Workers Group (IEG-6/S-223)
Statement of Issues and Justification
It is the purpose of this organization is to provide a continuing means for the exchange of information, cooperative planning, and periodic review of all phases of rice research and extension being carried on by State Agricultural Experiment Stations, State Agricultural Extension Services, the United States Department of Agriculture, and participating rice industry groups. It is believed this purpose can best be achieved through a conference held at least once every two years. The agencies represented in this memorandum mutually agree that overall suggestions of cooperative review and planning of rice research and extension in the several rice producing states and the United States Department of Agriculture shall be developed by a Rice Technical Working Group (henceforth designated RTWG), composed of all personnel actively engaged in rice investigations and extension in each of the agencies.Procedures and Activities
The RTWG functions according to an informal memorandum of agreement among the State Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Agricultural Extension Services of Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas, and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the Economic Research Service, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service and other agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Membership is composed of personnel in these and other cooperating public agencies and participating industry groups who are actively engaged in rice research and extension. Since 1960, research scientists and administrators from the U.S. rice industry and from international agencies have participated in the biennial meetings.
The RTWG meets at least biennially to provide for continuous exchange of information, cooperative planning, and periodic review of all phases of rice research and extension being carried on by the States, Federal Government, and other members. The current disciplines or Panels represented are: i) Breeding, Genetics, and Cytogenetics; ii) Economics and Marketing; iii) Plant Protection; iv) Processing and Storage; v) Rice Culture; and vi) Rice Weed Control and Growth Regulation. Each Panel has a Chair who, along with the Secretary/Program Chair, solicits and receives titles, interpretive summaries, and abstracts of papers to be presented at the biennial meeting. The papers are presented orally in concurrent technical sessions or via poster. Each Panel over the course of the meeting develops proposals for future work, which are suggested to the participating members for implementation. biennially at the worker level of those currently engaged in rice research and extension. Details of the cooperation in the several States are provided in formal Memoranda of Understanding and/or appropriate Supplements executed for the respective state.
Standing committees include: i) Nominations, ii) Resolutions, iii) Rice Crop Germplasm, iv) Rice Variety Acreage, v) Awards, and vi) Location and Time.
A Panel Chair or Panel Chair and Co-Chair, at least one of whom will be an active rice worker in state or federal agencies, shall be elected by each of the active subject matter panels. Such election shall take place by the end of each biennial meeting and Panel Chairs will serve as members of the Program Committee for the next biennial meeting. Each Panel Chair will be responsible for developing the panel program in close cooperation with the Secretary-Program Chair and for seeing that the Panel Recommendations are updated at each biennial meeting and approved by the participants in the respective panel sessions. Participation in the panel discussions including presentation of rice research finding by rice industry representatives and by representatives from National or International Institutes is encouraged.
At the end of each biennial meeting, a proceedings of papers and talks is published by the Proceeding editors institution (See Literature Cited for examples) and are posted on the RTWG web page http://www.uaex.edu/RTWG/.
At the time that the RTWG was established, there was validity for the existence of the resolutions committee. At this time though, Don Groth raised the question on the need for the resolutions committee. Groth motioned to eliminate the resolution committee and responsibilities be taken over by the secretary. Tim Walker seconded and the motion was passed.
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