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Part Two: “Building In” a Balanced Response to Climate Change … and Being Acountable

September 22, 2010 Dave Cleaves, USDA Forest Service Climate Change Advisor

This post is Part Two 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. Read part one here.

Forestry Research and Science

Number of Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the U.S. Continues to Grow

September 21, 2010 Hubert Hamer, Chairperson of the Agricultural Statistics Board, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

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

Part One: “Building In” a Balanced Response to Climate Change … and Being Accountable

September 21, 2010 Dave Cleaves, USDA Forest Service Climate Change Advisor

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. On July 20, the Forest Service announced a new system for integrating consideration of climate change into agency...

Forestry Research and Science

Salmon Baby Food Gives a Nutritional Boost to Infants and Toddlers

September 15, 2010 Susan Brewer, University of Illinois

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. As adults, we have heard for years about the value of adding fish to our diets. But have you ever stopped to consider...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

USDA Representatives Go into the Fields to Get Accurate Yield Forecasts

September 07, 2010 Marshall L. Dantzler, Director of Eastern Field Operations, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

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. When I was growing up on the farm in South Carolina, my family used a very simple method of estimating our production...

Research and Science

Understanding Farms in the United States

August 31, 2010 Bob Hoppe, Economist, Economic Research Service

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. What are U.S. farms like? Are they largely family businesses, or corporate operations? Describing farms is challenging...

Research and Science

USDA education grant opens door to agriculture career opportunities

August 17, 2010 Jill Lee, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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 2004, as a junior at Montana State University (MSU), Ashley Williams knew she wanted to use her geography degree to...

Conservation Research and Science

USDA and Sports—An Uncommon Link

August 03, 2010 prhee

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. By Tara Weaver-Missick, Branch Chief, with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Summer field sports are under...

Research and Science

USDA Master Gardeners Tour Village of Herbal Healing

July 28, 2010 prhee

By Tanya Brown, Farm Service Agency To the untrained eye, a trip through Jim Duke’s Herbal Village in Fulton, Md., looks like a homestead for weeds and other unwanted vegetation. But for a group of master gardeners from the People’s Garden initiative, it was a journey through the land of healing....

Animals Plants Research and Science

USDA Partners with USAID to End Global Hunger with Science and Innovation

July 28, 2010 prhee

By Anita Regmi, USDA Research, Education, and Economics 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. Living and traveling through rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan...

Food and Nutrition Trade Research and Science

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