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Forest Service Rookie an International Inspiration

May 24, 2016 John C. Heil III, U.S. Forest Service

Six months after being hired by the U.S. Forest Service, Angelica Perez-Delgado made a major impact, including international assistance to the country of Georgia, on her way to being named Rookie of the Year for the Pacific Southwest Region late in 2015. When a major storm event triggered a...

Forestry

Helping Agriculture Producers Adapt To Climate Change from the Ground Down

May 23, 2016 Dr. Jean Steiner, Acting Lead, Southern Plains Climate Hub

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

USDA Results

United States Drought Monitor: Innovative Data Solutions for the Future of Water

May 23, 2016 Caroline Dvorsky, Natural Resources and Environment

Communities across the United States are facing water challenges, impacting millions of lives and costing billions of dollars in damages. Recent events, including record-breaking drought in the West and severe flooding in the Southeast have elevated a national dialogue on the state of our Nation’s...

Conservation USDA Results

Biocontrol Staff Are Modern-Day MacGyvers in the Fight Against Invasive Beetle

May 23, 2016 Sharon Lucik, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Emerald ash borer (EAB) beetle is an invasive wood boring beetle, first detected in July 2002 in southeastern Michigan. The pest attacks and kills ash trees and it is responsible for the death and decline of tens of millions of ash in 25 states. EAB lives under the bark and when people move EAB...

Animals Plants

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Rural Electrification Administration

May 20, 2016 Brandon McBride, Administrator, USDA Rural Utilities Service

May 20, 2016 is the 80 th anniversary of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. The REA was created to bring electricity to farms. In 1936, nearly 90 percent of farms lacked electric power because the costs to get electricity to rural areas were prohibitive. REA funding and the hard work of Rural...

Rural USDA Results

Making Families Whole Through Disaster Response

May 20, 2016 Sasha McNair, Governmental Affairs Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service

As part of National Preparedness Month and Hurricane Preparedness Week, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) released a video featuring a team that traveled to South Carolina in October 2015 to cover the floods that affected more than half of the state. People lost their jobs, cars, and some even...

Food and Nutrition

Beef Retailers Now Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Beef

May 20, 2016 Christopher Bernstein, Director of Food Safety Education, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA

This summer and grilling season – which unofficially kicks off in less than two weeks with Memorial Day weekend – American shoppers will see an important new label on some steak packages. Beginning May 17, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service started requiring meat...

Health and Safety

Adaptation Resources for Agriculture in the Midwest and Northeast

May 20, 2016 Dan Dostie, NRCS Project Liaison, USDA Northeast Climate Hub

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

USDA Results

In Conversation with #WomeninAg: Dr. Cathy Kling

May 19, 2016 Jessica McCarron, USDA Office of Communications

Every month, USDA shares the story of a woman in agriculture who is leading the industry and helping other women succeed along the way. This month, we hear from Dr. Cathy Kling, a Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a professor of economics at Iowa State...

Initiatives

Local and Organic Food Shopping - Finding the Best Price

May 19, 2016 Craig A. Morris, AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program Deputy Administrator and Hailee May, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Local Foods Tracking Administrative Coordinator

When comparing product prices between farmers markets and retail stores, local products are competitively priced - within a 10 percent price range - at farmers markets a majority of the time, even less expensive for some foods. Local, certified organic products at farmers markets are almost always...

Food and Nutrition Farming

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