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A Recycling Trailer Makes a Nebraska Community Environmentally Friendly

May 18, 2011 Vicki Schurman, USDA Nebraska Public Information Officer

USDA Rural Development in Nebraska celebrated with the City of Pawnee City last month in honor of Earth Day, the recent delivery of a multi-bin recycling trailer. City officials, school children and those instrumental to the project attended. The ribbon was cut signifying the community dedication to...

Rural

Teaming Up to Triple Summer Food for Rio Grande Valley Kids

May 17, 2011 Jesse Garcia, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Summer is just around the corner with most schools and school meal programs closing down for summer break. Without school meals to depend on, too many kids don’t have access to a nutritious meal. The Summer Food Service Program provides kids in low-income areas a free nutritious meal or snack each...

Food and Nutrition

Guatemalan Girl Reaps Benefits of USDA’s Food for Education Program

May 17, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

The USDA McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program is working to make a difference in Central America. Guatemala has one of the highest rates of stunting in the world due to chronic malnutrition. More than 90 percent of families live on less than $2 a day and as a result, the majority of children are...

Food and Nutrition Trade

The Competition Gets Prickly as Judges Head to Minnesota

May 17, 2011 Aaron Lavallee, Office of Communications, USDA

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: I can’t tell you if there are 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, but I can tell you that there is one creative group of students the South Education Center Alternative (SECA) in Richfield, Minn. Richfield was the next stop in the First Lady’s Recipes for Healthy Kids...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

USDA and The Recovery Act Funds a Michigan Treatment Facility

May 17, 2011 Alec Lloyd, Michigan USDA Public Information Officer

Recently I attended a presentation and groundbreaking near Midland, Michigan, for a unique USDA Rural Development Community Facilities project: A residential treatment center for the Ten Sixteen Recovery Network. This is an unusual type of project for our agency. Our community facility projects tend...

Initiatives Rural

Cows and Hops Could Prove to be a Good Combination

May 17, 2011 Chris Guy, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff

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.

Research and Science

USDA-Funded Water Quality Project Leads to Industry Expansion and Creation of Almost 400 New Jobs

May 17, 2011 Katherine Belcher, USDA Kentucky Public Information Officer

It is the goal of every USDA Rural Development program to help improve the economy and the quality of life in rural communities across this country – but with some projects, the impact of agency investment is not always obvious in the early stages. Once in a while, however; you have one that creates...

Rural

Aloha! Mount Lebanon Elementary School

May 16, 2011 Aaron Lavallee, Office of Communications, USDA

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: You don’t have to go to Hawaii to get a taste of the islands. In fact the students at Mount Lebanon Elementary School in Pendleton, S.C. were cooking up what can only be described as a paradise for the taste buds in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Recipes for...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

NEI Event in Delaware Highlights Regional Businesses, Exports

May 16, 2011 Michael Scuse, Acting Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

Last week, I was honored to travel home to Delaware to address the importance of the President’s National Export Initiative (NEI). As a proud former agriculture secretary for this great state, I know well that for thousands of Delawareans, agriculture is not only a livelihood, but also a way of life...

Trade

Childhood Landscape Inspires a Conservation Career

May 16, 2011 Julie A. MacSwain, NRCS

The views are breathtaking in what’s known as the “driftless area” in the upper Midwest, which encompasses parts of southeast Minnesota, southwest Wisconsin, northeast Iowa and northwest Illinois. This unique area was bypassed by retreating glaciers during the end of the last Ice Age several...

Conservation