North Central Region SARE (NCR-SARE) is one of four regional offices that run the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, a nationwide grants and education program to advance sustainable innovation to American agriculture.

This page is made possible with support from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed within this account do not necessarily reflect the view of the SARE program or the USDA. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

NCR-SARE will review all comments as they are posted to our new media forums. For the benefit of a robust and constructive conversation, we will allow comments only if they relate to the topic discussed within the corresponding post. We want to publish your comments, but expect participants to show respect, civility and consideration to the post authors and the other members of our social media communities. Therefore, we will not allow comments that:

•Make personal attacks

•Are far off-topic

•Contain offensive language (including, but not limited to, comments that are vulgar, disturbing, sexual or violent in nature, and inappropriate comments related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or religious affiliation)

•Encourage unlawful behavior.

In addition, NCR-SARE may reject/remove comments if they:

•Promote third-party services or products

•Contain the private information of an individual (including, but not limited to, social security numbers, personal addresses, or personal emails and phone numbers)

•Are political in nature (including, but not limited to, comments that are critical of government programs or institutions; or are in favor of or opposition to political figures or pending legislation).

NCR-SARE will either accept or reject participants' comments as is; comments will not be edited to remove objectionable content.

Any references to commercial entities, products, services, or other nongovernmental organizations or individuals that remain on NCR-SARE's social media forums are provided solely for informational purposes. Such references are not an official or personal endorsement of any product, person or service.

We recognize that new media tools are available 24 hours a day, and we welcome your comments at any time. However, given the need to manage resources, moderating and posting of comments will occur during regular business hours, Monday through Friday. With new media forums where NCR-SARE requires prior approval of participant comments, comments submitted after hours or on weekends or holidays will be read and posted as soon as possible; in most cases, this will mean the next business day.

This policy may be updated or amended at any time.