From its inception, the Experiment Station has been a partnership between the state and Federal government. Federal support comes through appropriations from the USDA for the Hatch Act, the Cooperative Forestry Research Act ("McIntire-Stennis Act") and the Animal Health Act. The state of West Virginia appropriates funds that must at least match the level of federal appropriations. Research grants, cooperative agreements, research contracts, and gifts are important, and growing, sources of support for the Station's programs. Sales of fruit, dairy products, timber, animal food products and plants often occur as a by-product of research activities. The annual budget for Experiment Station operations in 1997 was $8,851,000.
Federal Formula Fund Appropriations
State Agricultural Experiment Stations, like the West Virginia
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, receive annual appropriations
directly from the U.S. Congress. Our Experiment Station is a partner with
the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a program of research that
incorporates both the federal appropriations and state appropriations.
Federal formula funds must comply with applicable program legislation and
regulations. Expenditures must comply with federal cost principles as
prescribed by the U.S.Office of Management and Budget. All research costs
must be identified specifically with the applicable formula program or be
directly assigned to the program with a high degree of accuracy. The costs
attributable must be reasonable, allowable, and allocable to the applicable
formula program. The Director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry
Experiment Station is responsible and accountable for the proper
administration and use of formula funds.
At the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, federal formula programs are:
Agricultural research funding provided to agricultural experiment stations under the Hatch Act of 1887,
Forestry research funds provided under the McIntire-Stennis Act (Cooperative Forestry Research Act, of 1962 and,
Animal health and disease funds provided to veterinary schools and agricultural experiment stations under Section 1433 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977.
Hatch Act Funds
The scope of agricultural research that may be conducted under the Hatch Act
includes research on all aspects of agriculture, including soil and water
conservation and use; plant and animal production, protection, and health;
processing, distributing, safety, marketing, and utilization of feed and
agricultural products; forestry, including range management and range
products, multiple use of forest and rangelands, and urban forestry;
aquaculture; home economics and family life, human nutrition; rural
community development; sustainable agriculture; molecular biology; and
biotechnology. Research may be conducted on problems of local, atate,
regional, or national concern.
The Director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station is responsible for determining the research to be conducted by the Station, ensuring that both the federal Hatch funds and state matching funds are used for the intended purposes. By law, indirect costs and tuition remission are not allowable.
McIntire-Stennis Funds
The scope of forestry research that may
be conducted under this program includes research relating to reforestation
and management of land for the production of timber and other related
products of the forest; management of forest and related watershed lands to
improve conditions of water flow and to protect resources against floods and
erosion; management of forest and related rangeland for production of forage
for domestic livestock and game and improvement of food and habitat for
wildlife; management of forest lands for outdoor recreation; protection of
forest land and resources against fire, insects, diseases, or other
destructive agents; utilization of wood and other forest products;
development of sound policies for the management of forest lands and the
harvesting and marketing of forest products; and such other studies as may
be necessary to obtain the fullest and most effective use of forest resources.
Responsibility for the program is with the Director, West Virginia
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. The Director determines the
research to be conducted by the institution, ensuring that both the federal
McIntire-Stennis funds and the matching state funds are used for the
intended purposes, and complying with all rules and regulations. By
law,
indirect costs and
tuition remission are
not allowable.
Animal Health and Disease
Funds
The scope of research that may be conducted with Animal Health and Disease
Research funds includes research to promote the general welfare through
improved health and productivity of domestic livestock, poultry, aquatic
animals, and other income-producing animals that are essential to the
nation’s food supply and the welfare of producers and consumers of animal
products; to improve the health of horses; to facilitate the effective
treatment of, and where possible, prevent diseases in both domesticated and
wild species which, if not controlled, would be disastrous to the United
States animal industries and endanger the nation’s food supply; to minimize
livestock and poultry losses due to transportation and handling; to protect
human health through control of animal diseases transmissible to humans; to
improve methods of controlling the birth of predators and other animals; and
otherwise promote the general welfare through expanded programs of research
and extension to improve animal health.
The Director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment
Station is responsible for determining the research to be conducted,
ensuring that animal Health and Disease Research funds and state matching
funds are used for the intended purposes, and complying with all rules and
regulations. By law, indirect costs and tuition remission are not allowable.
