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Here’s to 150 More

May 14, 2012 Rebecca Frank, New Media Content Specialist

Tomorrow, May 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will celebrate 150 years of work on behalf of agriculture, rural America and people throughout the country and world. In anticipation of tomorrow's activities, the 30 th Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, sat down today for the May edition of...

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Maryland 4-H Members Gets Hands Dirty with the First Lady

April 02, 2012 Jennifer Martin, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Working in the dirt is no big deal for 4-H member Josh Tice. However, it’s not every day he gets invited to help First Lady Michelle Obama plant a cherry blossom tree in honor of the 100 th anniversary of Japan’s gift to the United States. Josh, and his mom and dad, Deana and Josiah, were on hand...

Initiatives

D.C. Chef Helps Cultivate Good Nutrition Through Partnership with GreenSchools!, U.S. Forest Service

March 26, 2012 Vicki Arthur and Tamberly Conway, U.S. Forest Service, Conservation Education

Mark Haskell has perfected the school garden recipe: a green thumb, a passion for home-grown food, culinary expertise and partnerships with GreenSchools! and the U.S. Forest Service to whip up the excitement of urban school children connecting their garden to the food they eat.

Forestry Initiatives

Russia Christmas Fair Highlights American Holiday Treats

January 03, 2012 Deanna M.J. Ayala, Director, Agricultural Trade Office, U.S. Embassy Moscow

The Agricultural Trade Office in St. Petersburg, Russia joined U.S. cooperators and the U.S. Consulate to host the first-ever American pavilion at the St. Petersburg Christmas Fair, which runs from Dec. 21, 2011 to Jan. 14, 2012. The pavilion showcases American cuisine including New York cheesecakes...

Trade

Preventing Hunger and Protecting Taxpayers: Our Renewed Efforts to Combat SNAP Fraud

December 06, 2011 Kevin Concannon, USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

In recent years, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – formerly known as food stamps – has demonstrated an exceptional record in program integrity and stewardship of taxpayer dollars. The program currently serves as a bridge to success for over 46 million Americans who are at risk of...

Food and Nutrition

Hitting the Trail with a Trail Crew on a national forest in Oregon

September 14, 2011 Matthew Burks, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, US Forest Service

Doing more with less is a phrase we have all become accustomed to in recent years. U.S. Forest Service trail crews embody this spirit. Recently, I had the opportunity to spend the day with a trail crew out of the Whitman district in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Half of the crew was tasked to...

Forestry

USDA Forest Service Research Center’s Tree-Planting Technique Takes Root in South

September 07, 2011 Reggie Woodruff, Media Relations Officer, U.S. Forest Service

USDA Forest Service research is transforming exhausted farmland in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee into thousands of acres of hardwood forests that will provide revenue to landowners, remove carbon from the air and serve as habitats for wildlife. In 1998...

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Soil Sleuth Gets Historical Marker in Louisa, VA

August 09, 2011 Barbara Bowen, NRCS Virginia

Why does land wear out? This great agricultural mystery led generations of farmers to simply move when the land no longer supported agricultural production. That changed in 1905, when a soil scientist unearthed the key to sustained productivity by linking soil erosion and degradation of soil quality...

Conservation

Answering the Call: Making Science More Accessible for Forest Planners in the East

July 26, 2011 Emrys Treasure, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. In forests, climate change ramps up stress already occurring from extreme weather events, disease and insect outbreaks...

Forestry Research and Science

US Forest Service Finds that Forests Play Huge Role in Reducing Carbon and Higher Global Temps

July 14, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Forests absorb carbon like a giant sponge into what scientists call a carbon sink. This fact is well known throughout the scientific community. However, what scientists weren’t sure of until now is the amount of carbon forests can store. For years scientists knew a large amount of carbon was somehow...

Forestry