Sec. 7125. Agricultural Innovation Corridors
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Subtitle K of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3310 et seq. ) (as amended by section 7124) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a network of research corridors, each operated by an institution described in paragraph (2), for research and development on agricultural technology, to be known as Agricultural Innovation Corridors (referred to in this section as Ag Innovation Corridors ).
An Ag Innovation Corridor shall be operated by any of the following institutions: An 1862 Institution, an 1890 Institution, or a 1994 Institution (as those terms are defined in section 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 ( 7 U.S.C. 7601 )). An institution described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1067q(a) ). An Ag Innovation Corridor shall be established in each of the following geographic areas of the United States:
Northeast. North Central. Southeast. Great Plains. Rocky Mountain West. The Ag Innovation Corridors shall have the following goals: To demonstrate new and emerging technologies as applied to agricultural and natural resource practices. To demonstrate benefits of— providing farms with internet service that is capable of a speed of not less than— a 100-Mbps downstream transmission capacity; and a 20-Mbps upstream transmission capacity; controlled-environment food and agricultural production; and agrivoltaics systems for collocated agricultural and solar energy production.
To engage with rural and urban audiences regarding emerging agricultural technologies and educational opportunities. To cooperate and collaborate with agricultural industry partners on emerging agricultural technologies and opportunities. To advance research to find new technologies and practices to apply to agriculture and natural resources to increase sustainability, profitability, and conservation of resources. To connect industry, researchers, and practitioners across geographical areas to share research, new ideas, and practices.
The activities of the Ag Innovation Corridors shall include— long-term research— to develop novel agricultural technologies for use at regional and national scales; and to evaluate the applicability and adaptability of those technologies to local conditions; the establishment and maintenance of multiple sites or research centers that capture the diversity of agricultural production systems that function as a network; engagement and education of rural and urban audiences regarding agricultural technologies; and collaboration with agricultural industry partners at research centers and sites to develop and research new agricultural technologies and practices that increase sustainability, profitability, and conservation.
In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— coordinate long-term agricultural technology research to improve understanding within the Department of Agriculture of how technologies function at the field, regional, and national scales; ensure that each research site included within an Ag Innovation Corridor conducts experiments with common goals and methods— to increase agricultural productivity and profitability; to enhance agricultural resilience and the capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change; to work with the agricultural industry to develop technologies that address the goals described in subparagraphs
(A)and (B); and to educate both rural and urban audiences on agriculture and new agricultural technologies; make data collected at research sites included in Ag Innovation Corridors open to researchers and the public whenever practicable, and integrate data across the network and partner sites; and provide infrastructure to research sites included in the Ag Innovation Corridors for data collection, common measurements, and data streams that complement other national networks, such as the National Ecological Observatory Network and the Long-Term Ecological Research Network. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2025 through 2029. .
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