Foreign-aid cuts force disbanding of CSU ag center

Declining enrollment signaled end

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s International Center for Agricultural and Resource Development, known as ICARD, has “gone into hibernation” due to dwindling foreign-aid funds, said Merle Niehaus, director of International Research and Development at the university.
This means that trainees from developing countries will no longer receive their instruction at CSU in agricultural subjects, such as corn and wheat production, irrigation and management of public lands, which was ICARD’s primary function, Niehaus said.
The university is still training foreign students, “but there’s been a swing away from agriculture and into the social sciences, like ‘how to…