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With USDA Support, Aging Utah Dams to be Revitalized

May 05, 2015 Kirk Hanlin, Assistant Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service

In the 1950s and 60s USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), working with state, local governments and partners, designed and built many dams across the United States for flood and sediment control and water storage. Many of these dams are coming to the end of their design life. In...

Conservation

$1 Billion Invested in Rural Health Care Across 13 States

May 04, 2015 Brandon McBride, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.

In late 2011, the President announced a White House Rural Council initiative lead by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to invest in rural health and link rural doctors and hospitals to financing for health IT. The initiative was designed to...

Rural Technology

Direct Certification Improves Low-Income Children's Access to Healthy School Meals, Boosts Program Efficiency

May 04, 2015 Allison Magness, Research Analyst, Food and Nutrition Service

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is committed to helping America’s children get the nutritious food they need to learn and grow. Direct certification for school meals is one important strategy to make that possible for the low-income children. This process links student enrollment records to...

Food and Nutrition

The Joy and Value of a Meadow

May 04, 2015 Georgia Dempsey, U.S. Forest Service

Watching the golden glow of the sun alight upon meadow grasses stirs my imagination. My mind conjures up misty visions of the famous naturalist, John Muir, traipsing through the Sierras, admiring Corn Lilies and sedges. A red-tailed hawk swoops into this vision and silently plucks a pocket gopher...

Forestry

Northern Plains Regional Climate Hub Vulnerability Assessment Published

May 04, 2015 Rachel Steele, USDA National Climate Hubs Coordinator

The Northern Plains Regional Climate Hub—encompassing Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado— has a high diversity of land use types including the largest remaining tracts of native rangeland in North America. Substantial areas of both dryland and irrigated cropland and...

Conservation

USDA Wildlife Habitat Program Going Strong - 30 Years, 1 Million Acres Later

May 01, 2015 Val Dolcini, Administrator, Farm Service Agency

Farmers and ranchers were among the first to practice conservation. It’s not surprising when you think about it. They’ve always understood the importance of caring for our land and water, and they depend on our natural resources for their livelihoods. They’re at the forefront of our country’s...

Conservation

Growing with the Times, Expanded USDA Farmers Market Opens for 20th Season

May 01, 2015 Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator

This morning, Secretary Tom Vilsack and I kicked off the 20 th season of the USDA Farmers Market. It was quite a celebration, complete with balloons, ribbon cutting and bell ringing! The market underwent a major redesign and expansion this year to make room for twice as many vendors as we’ve had in...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Secretary Vilsack Accepts Climate Leadership Award

May 01, 2015 Kari Cohen, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

On April 28, 2015, the American Carbon Registry (ACR) presented Secretary Vilsack with its 2015 Climate Leadership award, intended to recognize an individual whose career commitments to address the changing climate have made a difference and whose example we hope will inspire other individuals to...

1890 Land Grant University Transform City Kid into Ag School's Research Leader

May 01, 2015 Alexandra Wilson, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Like many city kids growing up in Richmond, Va., Carolyn Brooks didn’t know much about agriculture and had never heard of 4-H. That changed quickly, however, as she was the first in her family to graduate from college—earning a B.S. and then a M.S. in biology from one of the foremost agricultural...

Initiatives

25 Years Later, Forest Conservation Programs Still Help Keep Our Working Forests Thriving And Working

May 01, 2015 Senator Patrick Leahy and Under Secretary Robert Bonnie

Patrick Leahy is Vermont’s senior U.S. senator and led in authoring forest conservation programs that he first included in the 1990 Farm Bill, when he chaired the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Robert Bonnie is USDA’s undersecretary for natural resources and environment...

Conservation Forestry