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Spurring Agricultural Innovation Across the Nation

June 21, 2017 Michelle Thomas, NRCS

“He would often dream up new ideas and inventions that he would build in his shop and implement on his farm. Most all of them worked better than anything else available. He never faced a hill that he didn’t think could be flattened with a lot of hard work and determination, and he taught those...

Conservation

USDA/Microsoft "Innovation Challenge" Offers $60K in Prizes to Software Developers

July 24, 2015 Ann Bartuska, Ph.D., Deputy Undersecretary, Research, Education, and Economics

Farmers have long looked to the clouds for signs of relief, but a new competition launched by USDA and Microsoft will tap the Internet cloud to help farmers and our food systems to adapt to climate change. The “Innovation Challenge” is asking software developers to create applications that will use...

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