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Calling All Open Data Partners

July 22, 2014 Jaime Adams, 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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. What data have you opened to the world lately? In a time of increased global challenges in food and agriculture, a...

Research and Science

Open Data for Transparent and Effective Disaster Relief

July 14, 2014 Joyce Hunter, Deputy CIO, Policy and Planning

Support for those affected by disasters is critical. By developing more comprehensive tools that prepare citizens and government before the next event helps. Helping communities rebuild and become more resilient to extreme weather in the future is vital. Citizens need to be able to access accurate...

Conservation Technology

Why Open Data Matters: G-8 and African Nations Increase Open Data for Food Security

May 08, 2013 Wayne Maloney, Office of Communications, USDA

Recently, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack opened the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture here in Washington. As head of the U.S. Delegation, the Secretary noted that “Data is quickly becoming one of the most important commodities in agriculture,” and encouraged the sharing of...

Research and Science

Secretary's Column: Accomplishing More by Democratizing Data

April 26, 2013 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Here in the United States, we enjoy incredible benefits from scientific research – including an amazing amount of useful data. Data is a very powerful tool, and an important asset for innovation. President Obama made clear on his first day in office that the U.S. is committed to openness in...

Research and Science

Trade Documents at Your Fingertips: Anytime, Anywhere

October 02, 2012 Douglas Bailey, AMS Information Technology Service Deputy Administrator

Over the last three years, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has worked with the peanut and dairy industries to create a government-hosted electronic trade document repository. The eTrade Document Exchange (eTDE) System, funded by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service through the Market...

Trade

Creatively Shaping the Future of Federal Nutrition Research

September 04, 2012 Tara T. Weaver-Missick, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Are you interested in helping shape the future of USDA human nutrition research? What human nutrition-related issues are you interested in? Childhood obesity? The nutrient content of foods? Health promotion and disease prevention? Now’s your chance to let your voice be heard. Be an active...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science Technology

Data Dashboards: Bringing More Market Information to Life

June 20, 2012 Mike Lynch, Director of AMS Livestock & Grain Market News

It has been said that the most successful person in life (and in business) is often the one who has the best information. For almost a century USDA Market News has been providing farmers, ranchers and businesses with the best market and pricing information. Our real-time commodity reports, produced...

Trade

Data-Lovers Rejoice: More Farmers Market Geocodes Available

October 27, 2011 Errol Bragg, Director, Marketing Services Division, AMS

With nearly 2 million page views in 2011 alone, the USDA National Farmers Market Directory is one of the Department of Agriculture’s most popular consumer search engines.

Food and Nutrition Farming

AMS Releases Grain Transportation Data in Raw Format

October 11, 2011 Bruce Blanton, Director of Transportation Services Division

The United States proudly touts a long history of grain production and is the top exporter of grain in the world. Half of our wheat, almost 40 percent of soybeans and almost a fifth of our corn are exported. That’s why for over a decade the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has been tracking and...

Food and Nutrition

USDA launches website to inform the public about user fees

December 06, 2010 Alyn Kiel, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Riverdale, MD

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is launching a website to provide members of the public with information about its user fee programs. The public can access the website at www.aphis.usda.gov/userfees.

Animals Plants
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