2. What can Western SARE do to address the challenges noted in this conference?

3. Above all else, SARE ensures a more sustainable agriculture system by awarding competitive grants…

5. DO read the Call for Proposals… Refer to this conference by NAME and how your project can meet this conference’s strategic CHALLENGES in your proposals.

6. COUCH your proposals within the major challenges that came from this conference. Use an interdisciplinary “systems” research/education group, if at all possible, in creative ways.

7. DO show how the ultimate impacts of your project can be measured, such as: $$-saved per acre or per farm… BTUs of ENERGY saved… Pounds of pesticide/acre that were not applied… Number of farms/ranches where practices changed…

8. DO create R&E educational proposals or PDP training proposals that utilize information from previously- funded SARE projects. REMEMBER: This is not REQUIRED but very WISE thing to do…

9. DO create understandable hypotheses to test and measure in Western SARE research proposals… DO involve farmers/ranchers in the research/education team, in a real way, as the project is developed…

10. DO NOT call yourself a farmer/rancher if you do not clearly meet the definition that is in the Call. Many projects that should be P+P are submitted as a FRG. DO read the Call for Proposals…

11. DO find creative ways to develop: Research hypotheses that relate to this or other SARE conferences… Education projects where the impacts can be measured.

12. Above all else, SARE ensures a more sustainable agriculture system by awarding competitive grants…