{"id":5,"date":"2018-04-25T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arsftfbean.uprm.edu\/bic\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:52:21","slug":"bean-improvement-cooperative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bean Improvement Cooperative \u2013 BIC is a voluntary and informal organization to effect the exchange of information and materials for the improvement of bean production worldwide. Members include scientists, students, private organizations and lay-people interested in our mission.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2025 Annual BIC Research Reports due Feb. 28, 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h2><strong>BIC Meeting 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agronomy.unl.edu\/bic-napia\/\">https:\/\/agronomy.unl.edu\/bic-napia\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe 2025 BIC biennial meeting will be hosted by BIC and University of Nebraska from Nov. 4-6, 2025 in Lincoln, Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #23282d; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: 600;\">Organization<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The President runs the BIC with assistance from a Coordinating Committee that meets every two years at the Biennial Meeting. In addition, three sub-committees provide input on matters related to specific topics. These include an Awards Committee, a Genetics Committee and a Local Organizing Committee that runs the biennial meeting. Membership in these committees is invited and a membership list is provided.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Juan Osrno, BIC President<br \/>\nNorth Dakota University<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:juan.osorno@ndsu.edu\">juan.osorno@ndsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bean Improvement Cooperative \u2013 BIC is a voluntary and informal organization to effect the exchange of information and materials for the improvement of bean production worldwide. Members include scientists, students, private organizations and lay-people interested in our mission. 2025 Annual BIC Research Reports due Feb. 28, 2025 BIC Meeting 2025 https:\/\/agronomy.unl.edu\/bic-napia\/ The 2025 BIC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bic.uprm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}