Rhonda Miller, a Utah State University associate
professor was appointed western region coordinator
of a U.S. Department of Agriculture-based
competitive grant program. She now heads up
Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and
Education, based at Utah State University,
replacing Teryl Roper, who chose to go back to
his former post of teaching and research at USU.
“I look forward to advancing SARE’s mission as the Western Regional coordinator to improve agriculture’s profitability, stewardship and quality of life,” Miller said in a USU news release.
Miller, based in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences and USU Extension agricultural environmental quality specialist, cited her farm roots growing up as a reason she’s interested in leading SARE.
SARE advances research between farmers, ranchers and university researchers through grants; and provides education through a professional development center and conferences.
According to the Western SARE project database online, SARE has conducted tests on raspberry production in different regions of the state; raspberries, the study noted, are successful in Northern Utah but not as much in the rest of the state.
Western SARE covers 13 western states and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, Micronesia and the Northern Marianas Islands.
For more information, please visit www.sare.org