Center member universities and principal investigators at each university are:

University of Arkansas
University of California-Davis
Cornell University
Duke University
University of Georgia
Iowa State University
University of Maryland
Michigan State University
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
North Carolina State University
Oklahoma State University
Purdue University
Texas A&M University System
University of Wisconsin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stake holders such as commodity groups, agribusinesses, environmental organizations and state and federal governments were represented on the Policy Advisory Committee.