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USDA Boosts Innovation as a Pathway to Jobs and a Rural Biobased Economy

January 15, 2013 Sarah Bittleman, USDA Senior Energy Advisor

If you want proof that rural America is a land of limitless opportunity, go to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Last week I accompanied Secretary Vilsack as he toured a state-of-the-art bioindustrial facility in Pennsylvania that converts multiple feedstocks into cellulosic sugars. The plant, operated...

USDA Results Energy

Bugs Behaving Badly...USDA Scientists Plan To Stop Them with the Public’s Help

January 15, 2013 Tara Weaver-Missick, USDA Agricultural Research Service

USDA is taking its battle against bad bugs “to the streets.” USDA’s Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS) is seeking public input in fighting insect pests, many of whom may, in public opinion, top the lists as public nuisance number one—like bedbugs and mosquitoes.

Animals Plants Research and Science

A New Tool for Breeding Better Wheat

December 04, 2012 Olin Anderson, Research Leader, Agricultural Research Service Genomics and Gene Discovery Research Unit, Albany, Calif.

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. An international team of scientists, including some from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, has identified the 90,000...

Research and Science

Wheat Genome Sequenced in Breakthrough for Global Food Security

November 28, 2012 Sandy Miller Hays, Information Staff, Agricultural Research Service

The Journal Nature today published a paper reporting that scientists from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), as part of an international team, have completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up...

Food and Nutrition

Giving Thanks for Research

November 20, 2012 Sandy Miller Hays, 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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. When you sit down to your Thanksgiving feast and reflect on the bounty on your table, you might want to say a quiet “thank...

Research and Science

Pest v. Pest: ARS Offers Method for Combating Whiteflies

November 13, 2012 Chris Guy, 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 USDA's rich science and research portfolio. Some Arizona growers rely on broad-spectrum insecticides to treat whiteflies, but scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural...

Research and Science

Prickly Plants Might Cleanse California Soil

October 23, 2012 Chris Guy, 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 USDA's rich science and research portfolio. It’s hard to believe that ancient seas once covered a large part of California’s San Joaquin Valley—until you check the...

Research and Science

New USDA Efforts to Spur Technology and Innovation

October 09, 2012 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 profile. From desktops to tablets, and from floppy disks to flash drives, technology is constantly changing. Each new idea is developed...

USDA Results Research and Science

The Clues Blowing in the Wind

September 25, 2012 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 profile. Even back in the days of Mark Twain’s riveting tales of steamboat pilots and derring-do on the Mississippi River, it was...

Research and Science

How ‘Eco’ is Friendly to Agriculture and Food Systems

September 18, 2012 Jill Auburn, Office of the Chief Scientist

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 profile. Words like eco-friendly, green, fair, climate-friendly, community-based and organic are popping up daily – in the news, in ads...

Conservation Research and Science
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