Perdue tells land grants not to count on USDA money

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told the heads of the land grant universities on Tuesday that they should not count on money from the Agriculture Department to make up for any cuts to their budgets from state governments. Perdue told the convention of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities that university heads should tell their legislatures that “they cannot expect to replace funds that are lost through the local appropriations process.”