Summary
Scientific Consulting and Research Program Management, including identifying SC agricultural industry’s needs for research, preparing and advertising requests for pre-proposals based on SC agricultural industry’s needs for research and problem-solving, organizing pre-proposals, progress and final reports into semi-annual booklets for each of the separate industry segments, relaying this information to the appropriate industry leaders, organizing industry leaders from each identified industry segment to review progress on research as well as new research pre-proposals during Research Committee meetings, creating documentation between SCDA and each academic institution to establish contracts and grant accounts for research to be initiated and conducted, and managing all relationships between SCDA and researchers and between SCDA and industry members related to research, pre-proposals, and final reports on the selected projects