County Planning Project. A Cooperative Approach to Agricultural Planning

Abstract

Present planning activity of the Department of Agriculture and the Land-Grant Colleges, sometimes called the county planning project and more recently described as the county land-use planning project, is one of the latest chapters in the history of a long succession of cooperative efforts on the part of these institutions to promote a better rural life. More specifically defined, it is a cooperative effort on the part of the various agencies of the USDA, the Land-Grant Colleges, related State and local agencies, and representative farmers in each locality, State, and in the nation as a whole, to develop and currently revise agricultural plans and policies that will serve to coordinate various agricultural programs and related public activities, to increase their effectiveness in promoting long-time as well as emergency objectives, and to develop needed additional programs. The remainder of this paper will be an elaboration of this definition.