The Reinventing Agricultural Education for the Year 2020 initiative brought together a diverse group of people from across the nation to create a new vision for agriculture education. The group envisioned a system of agricultural education beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life. The group examined agricultural education's heritage and resolved to take a proactive stance in planning its future. The mission formulated will prepare students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resource systems. The following goals were established: (1) an abundance of highly motivated, well-educated teachers in all disciplines, pre-kindergarten through adult, will provide agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources education; (2) agricultural education leaders will provide instruction in the review, selection, adaptation, and use of appropriate educational technologies and teaching strategies to address the changing education environment; (3) all students will be conversationally literate in agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources systems; and (4) partnerships and strategic alliances will ensure continuous education about agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources systems. (The initiative's 36 steering committee and consortium leaders are listed.) (MN)