<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>URME Team: <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Let's talk about this next week at practice.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Larry<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div
style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Agricultural Innovation Prize <cmeyer1@wisc.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lhowery@ag.arizona.edu <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:00 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> National Agricultural Innovation Prize Launched - Your Ideas Needed!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
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<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">In Washington DC yesterday afternoon,
the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
announced the launch of the 2014 </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://agprize.com/"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">Agricultural Innovation Prize</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";"> in cooperation with the United
States Department of Agriculture. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">The competition is open to U.S.
undergraduate and graduate students across all academic disciplines and runs
through spring 2014, when teams will compete for the chance to win $215,000 in
prize money, with a grand prize of $100,000; making this the largest agriculture-focused
student competition in the world.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">The contest encourages student
teams to develop innovative plans to address social and agricultural challenges
within food systems, improving the standard of living and quality of life for
the world's population. </span></div>
<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">The
challenges facing our shared food systems are numerous - <b>and as a member of
the agricultural community we want YOUR input to identify specific challenges
that teams of students may use to guide the development of business plans that
address these challenges. </b></span></div>
<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";"> </span></div>
<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">Please
visit </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://uwmadison.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_a2A1PCvFbKSDh9b"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:#386EFF;">this web form</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";"> to contribute your ideas for
challenges facing agriculture today and into the future. Submissions will be
kept anonymous and will be compiled and summarized as soon as possible on our
website.</span></div>
<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";"> </span></div>
<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">If
you work with students, <a href="" rel="nofollow" name="_GoBack"></a>please direct them to</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";"> http://agprize.com to join our
mailing list and be kept informed of competition developments or opportunities
as they develop. </span></div>
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<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">Many
Thanks,</span></div>
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<div style="" class="yiv273478359MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";">The
Agricultural Innovation Prize team@ the University of Wisconsin - Madison</span></div>
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WI 53726</span></div>
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