9.0
BUDGET
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Personnel |
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0.27 Faculty FTE
(Coordination Committee, 9 @ 3.0% FTE) |
$18,900.00 |
$19,656.00 |
$20,442.24 |
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Benefits (17.65%) and $687/y Medical |
$4,022.85 |
$4,156.28 |
$4,295.06 |
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1.0 Project Coordinator (1 y) |
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$37,856.00 |
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Benefits (17.65%) and $2544/y Medical |
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$9,225.58 |
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Supplies |
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$1,500.00 |
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Travel |
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Field Days and Extension
Meetings |
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$2,000.00 |
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Meetings |
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Professional Meetings and
Conferences |
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$500.00 |
Outreach Education for Precision Agriculture
The
personnel funds requested in this project will be used to employ undergraduate
student help. We will utilize
approximately 15 hours of student help per week ($6.50/hr., 7.65% fringe rate). These students will assist with software installation and
evaluation, data input and manipulation, and maintenance of the mobile
laboratory. The equipment purchased
by this project will be computers to make up the mobile teaching laboratory.
Ten Pentium-based laptop computers will be purchased ($2,250 each) as
well as desktop workstation for laboratory support and software analysis
($2500). Extension cords, storage
media, and other miscellaneous infrastructure items will be purchased from
material and supply funds. Part of
the material and supply funds will be used to purchase 10 identical handheld GPS
receivers such as the Garmin GPSII+ or the Magellan GPS 2000 XL.
We will also purchase 10 handheld PC’s such as the Compaq iPAQ H3600
Pocket PC to collect and store data from the handheld GPS units. We will use a commercial PA software package such as Farm
Site Mate (Farm Works Software) or Field Rover II (Farm Works) on the handheld
units so that they can be connected to the laptop computers to upload data
collected during field exercises. We
will also use material and supply funds to complete our suite of PA software
packages (FarmGPS, FarmHMS, MapInfo, SitePro, SMS Basic, and AFS 2000) and to
purchase updates to currently owned software (JD Map, AgView, AgLink, FieldLink,
SGIS, and SSToolbox). The travel
funds will be used to facilitate travel to remote locations for training
sessions. They will also be used to
procure space for educational programs in locations where a fee may be required.
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Personnel |
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Student Labor (750 h @
$7.00/h) |
$5,250.00 |
$5,460.00 |
$5,678.00 |
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FICA (7.65%) |
$401.63 |
$417.69 |
$434.37 |
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Equipment |
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Desktop Computer |
$2,500.00 |
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Portable Computers |
$22,500.00 |
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Handheld GPS Receivers |
$4,000.00 |
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Handheld Data Loggers |
$5,000.00 |
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Supplies |
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Software |
$3,000.00 |
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Software maintenance and
upgrades |
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$500.00 |
$500.00 |
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Storage Media |
$805.00 |
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Computer Maintenance |
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$500.00 |
$500.00 |
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Travel |
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Statewide
Training Sessions |
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$3,000.00 |
$3,000.00 |
Kentucky
Precision Agriculture Education Consortium
Funds will be provided to each of the cooperating institutions (Western
Kentucky University and Murray State University) to be utilized for the
part-time support of students to develop and enhance the educational modules as
outlined in the sub-project proposal. Either
institution will receive $4648 annually along with $711 (annually) to cover
FICA. Each of the cooperating
institutions will also receive $750 per year to cover the cost of supplies that
will include storage media, and other computer supplies to support the
development of the educational modules. Another
$4,000 per year will be divided between the University of Kentucky and the
cooperating institutions to support travel of up to six faculty members from
each institution to an annual workshop. This
workshop will be hosted on a revolving basis between all institutions.
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Year
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Year
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Personnel |
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Student Labor |
$9,296.64 |
$9,296.64 |
$9,296.63 |
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FICA (7.65%) |
$711.19 |
$711.19 |
$711.19 |
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Supplies |
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$1,500.00 |
$1,500.00 |
$1,500.00 |
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Travel |
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$4,000.00 |
$4,000.00 |
$4,000.00 |
Sensors
and Variable Rate Management
A postdoc will be hired to complete the proposed
research. Extension cost will be
paid for by the university because extension faculty will be coauthors.
We have allocated $2000 for refereed journal page charges.
We have budgeted for travel to the different field locations.
We will purchase a GIS and remote sensing workstation.
We estimate that this will cost $10,000.
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Year
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Year
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Year
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Personnel |
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1.0 Post-Doctoral Scholar
(2.5 y) |
$30,191.00 |
$31,312.00 |
$15,699.00 |
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FICA (7.65%) and $2,544/y Medical |
$4,853.61 |
$4,939.37 |
$3,744.97 |
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Technician Overtime |
$2,818.00 |
$2,818.00 |
$2,818.00 |
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Benefits (17.65%) |
$497.38 |
$497.38 |
$497.38 |
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Equipment |
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GIS Workstation |
$10,000.00 |
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Travel |
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$2,000.00 |
$2,000.00 |
$1,000.00 |
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Publications |
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