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"Fuel Up to Play 60" Has Game Plan to Supercharge School Fitness and Nutrition

August 24, 2015 Whitney Rick, Agricultural Marketing Service Dairy Programs Promotion, Research and Planning Division, Dairy Program Director

Meet Jack, a sixth-grader who is eager to become a school nutrition and fitness game changer. He is one of nearly 20,000 student ambassadors with Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP 60), a program launched by the National Dairy Council (NDC) and National Football League (NFL) in collaboration with USDA. FUTP...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Super Bowl "Super Kid" Promotes Exercise, Healthy Eating

February 03, 2015 Whitney Rick, Agricultural Marketing Service Dairy Programs Promotion, Research and Planning Division, Dairy Program Director

Minutes before the National Football League (NFL) teams of Super Bowl XLIX took the field, a middle school student from Orlando, Fla., had the honor of handing the game ball to an NFL official for the kickoff. But Bobby did much more than hand off that football. As this year’s NFL Play 60 “Super Kid...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

USDA Keeps Dairy Exports Flowing to Morocco

December 01, 2014 Diane Lewis, Director, Grading and Standards Division of the Agricultural Marketing Service's Dairy Program

U.S. agricultural exports continue to be a bright spot for America’s economy, worth a record $152.5 billion in fiscal year 2014. That’s why USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and its sister agencies work so hard to keep these export markets open. So in 2011, when Morocco requested that USDA...

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Virtually Redefining Internships at USDA

May 07, 2012 Sarah Buikema, Dora Flores, and the entire AMS Dairy Programs Virtual Internship Team

The definition of “being in the office” or “being on the clock” is changing. Most organizations—government or private—have a multi-generational workforce that may or may not be in the same location. Our team alone has four generations with varying comfort levels in using different technologies...

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