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Second Morrill Act Redux: America's 1890s Land Grant Universities Academic Excellence

July 15, 2015 Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Booker T. Washington. George Washington Carver. Educators par excellence. Pioneers in food and agricultural scientific research. Dedicated their lives to helping "lift the veil of ignorance" by bringing knowledge to African-Americans and others with limited resources. For 125 years, since passage of...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Animals Plants Technology

Community Combats Pollution in Inlet, Succeeds in Restoring Oyster Populations

August 01, 2014 Kirk Hanlin, Assistant Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Two years ago, the Nisqually Shellfish Farm south of Belfair, Wash. didn’t have a chance. Runoff from surrounding homes and dairy farms polluted Henderson Inlet, and the state declared the water unfit for raising shellfish for human consumption. Worsening the problem, the place was overrun with an...

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