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Unpacking a Career in Agriculture with Assist from USDA’s Economic Research Service

September 21, 2022 USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics Communications Team

From an early age, Sarah Baskins had in interest in agriculture. This interest accelerated when she became Merced College Agricultural Business Student of the Year. While studying for her Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Studies and Economics at California State University, Stanislaus...

Research and Science

The Next Generation of Agriculture at the Ag Outlook Forum

March 08, 2018 Emma Ditto, Public Health Nutrition MPH candidate, George Washington University, and USDA Student Trainee

On February 22-23, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) hosted the 94 th Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF), welcoming hundreds of current and rising agricultural leaders. The event brought together public and private stakeholders to discuss key issues in U.S. agriculture. Among...

Initiatives

Student Diversity Program Winners are Honored Guests at this Year’s Ag Outlook Forum

February 13, 2018 Susan Carter, Chief Communications Officer, Office of the Chief Economist and Agricultural Outlook Forum Manager

The next generation of agricultural leaders get to rub elbows with today’s ag decisionmakers at the 2018 Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF) later this month. Twenty undergraduate juniors and seniors and 10 graduate students have been selected as winners of the 2018 Student Diversity Program. These...

Initiatives

In Conversation with #WomeninAg: Onelisa Garza

October 02, 2015 Rachael Dubinsky, Office of Communications

To wrap up our Women’s Week blog series, we hear from Onelisa Garza, a current college senior at Texas A&M University, Kingsville who was raised in the small town of Linn, Texas. Onelisa has been very active in organizations like 4-H and FFA her whole life and has held many leadership positions...

Conservation Initiatives

In Their Own Words: Secretary Vilsack, Students Reflect on the Future of American Agriculture

May 07, 2015 Alyn Kiel, USDA Office of Communications

During this year’s Agricultural Outlook Forum, Secretary Vilsack sat down with college students participating in the Forum’s Student Diversity Program. Many former participants have gone on to achieve great things in the field of agriculture, which will come as no surprise after you hear what this...

Initiatives

USDA Announces Winners of 2013 Agricultural Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program

January 28, 2013 Brenda Chapin, Office of the Chief Economist

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the selection of 30 university students who will attend USDA’s 2013 Agricultural Outlook Forum. The students—who attend land-grant, Hispanic-serving, and American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources Institutions—have...

Initiatives
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