<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2018/12/statement-from-the-president-of-kentucky-state-university-m-christopher-brown-ii-ph-d-on-the-passage-of-the-2018-farm-bill.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>12/13/2018</pubDate><title>Statement from the President of Kentucky State University M. Christopher Brown II, Ph.D. on the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill</title><author/><summary/><image><img src="https://kysu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dr-M-Christopher-Brown-II-featured-image.jpg" alt="Statement from the President of Kentucky State University M. Christopher Brown II, Ph.D. on the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill"/></image><caption/><description>“On behalf of Kentucky State University, I wish to thank the United States Congress for the timely passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.  Although the Commonwealth’s General Assembly has not full funded our institutional land-grant programs, Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Andy Barr worked with our government relations staff to insure that the Farm Bill included measures to allow Kentucky State University a...</description></item>