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A Story of Plant Protection: Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day Gift to President Trump

March 17, 2020 Osama El-Lissy, Deputy Administrator for Plant Protection and Quarantine

Plants can serve as a profound symbol of friendship, especially when they cross an ocean to help two nations strengthen their bonds. I witnessed this firsthand on March 9, when I visited the Irish Embassy in Washington, D.C., joining Irish Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall as he...

Plants

Digital Plant Diagnosis: Turning a Mobile App into an Agricultural Game-Changer

July 13, 2016 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Ireland lost about 20 percent of its population to starvation and emigration during the great famine of 1845-1849 because disease destroyed that nation’s major food source – potato. Today, an Irish-born professor at Penn State University believes that a similar situation in other regions, such as...

Food and Nutrition

Trout Hatching Gives Students a Window to Conservation

May 15, 2013 Yasmeen Sands, Pacific Northwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service

Recently, elementary students in three Oregon classrooms welcomed a few hundred special guests that required unique accommodations — a small refrigerator, a covered tank, gravel, and a water filter. The students were part of an international fish education project that connected students in Oregon...

Forestry
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