Latest budget cuts do further damage to Georgia’s ‘Cadillac model’ - Farmers Press Blog

In late September, when word came that the bulk of the University of Georgia’s latest workforce reduction would come from agriculture — primarily the Cooperative Extension Service and the state’s network of experiment stations — there was more a sense of relief that it wasn’t worse rather than outrage that it was occurring in the first place. As directed by Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia General Assembly — the same cast of characters who gave their constituents one of the most convoluted immigration policies in the country — the University of Georgia reduced spending by 3 percent, with 40 job cuts being made in the Extension Service and another 27 in the agricultural experiment stations. http://southeastfarmpress.com/blog/latest-budget-cuts-do-further-damage-georgia-s-cadillac-model