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Preparing a Holiday Feast? Serve Up the Taste of Organics

December 23, 2014 Scott Elliott, 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Nature presents unparalleled bounty, so why not go back to basics and serve an organic holiday feast?

Research and Science

Pairing Plant "Buddies"

December 23, 2014 Jan Suszkiw, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Agricultural 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. People generally don’t go out of their way to attract insects. But on a few small farms outside Tallahassee, Florida, that’s...

Research and Science

USDA Delivers on Ways to Prevent Food Waste

December 15, 2014 Elise Golan, Director of Sustainability Development, USDA

Less than 2 years ago, the USDA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, with the goal of reducing food waste in the United States. We set an ambitious goal of having at least 400 businesses, schools, and/or organizations join the challenge by...

Conservation

REE Shows Children in Rural America How Ag Science Rocks

December 02, 2014 Melvin Washington, Confidential Assistant, Research, Education and Economics Mission Area

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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. You may be surprised by the answers you get when you ask a group of middle schoolers, “What do you like about science?”...

Research and Science

USDA and DHS Scientists Receive Top DHS Award for Animal Disease Research

December 02, 2014 Sandra Avant, 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. When people think about keeping our homeland safe, they don’t usually think about animal diseases that threaten our nation’s...

Research and Science

Federal Research Jumps from Lab to Marketplace

November 04, 2014 Kim Kaplan, 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. An innovative network of public- and private-sector groups are working together to transfer federal research out of the lab...

USDA Results Research and Science

Scientific Climate Info Now Available for Producers in the Northern Plains

October 29, 2014 Justin Derner, Northern Plains Regional Climate Hubs Lead

This fall, ranchers, farmers, and land managers in the Northern Plains from Bartlett, Nebraska to the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming will be making decisions that will affect their operations in the coming year. Land managers often consider markets, weather and changing climatic conditions...

Conservation

New Program Helps Bringing Technology and Innovation to Market

October 21, 2014 Kim Kaplan, 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Research, even cutting edge research, is often only half the battle when it comes to solving an agricultural problem. You’ve...

Research and Science

E. Kika De La Garza Science Fellow Uses Fresh Way to Find Body Fat

October 07, 2014 Dr. Annie Donoghue, Research Leader Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, ARS

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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics mission area will highlight those...

Research and Science

New Tools Encourage Connections, Collaboration, and Creativity Among Scientists Nationwide

October 07, 2014 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. We count on food and agricultural research to solve a wide variety of problems. USDA’s research programs contribute to...

Research and Science
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