Not Size Specific: The research is undertaken to deal with

particular problems that are related equally to all size groups of

farms. Most basic plant and animal research would fall into this

category.

 Large Farm: The research is undertaken for the purpose of

solving a problem unique to large farms.

 If a small farm subcommittee of the National Research Planning

Committee of the Joint Council's planning and coordination structure

were to be established, it should monitor the use of the codes and

add appropriate specificity to the definitions to get some degree of

consistency in their use. The Planning Committee should also under-

take an analysis of the work that is identified as "not specific to

size" to determine whether the application of the results tend to

be biased toward any particular size farm--i.e., is research not

specific to size really size neutral?

 The current estimate of $52,0 million is thought by some to

grossly underestimate Extension's actual small farm effort. The

small farm subcommittee of the National Extension Planning Committee

should take the lead in establishing a method to obtain and period-

ically update resource data on Extension's small farm effort.