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Engaging Spanish-Speaking Organic Stakeholders

September 22, 2015 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

A key component of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) work upholding organic integrity is providing the organic community with easy access to the National Organic Program’s (NOP) resources, to help producers and processors understand and comply with the USDA organic regulations. In recent...

Spanish

Apoyando Miembros de la Comunidad Orgánica de Habla Hispana

September 22, 2015 Miles McEvoy, Subadministrador del Programa Orgánico Nacional

Un componente clave del trabajo del Servicio de Comercialización Agrícola (conocida en inglés como el Agricultural Marketing Service o AMS) del USDA en asegurar la integridad orgánica es proporcionar a la comunidad orgánica acceso fácil a los recursos del Programa Nacional Orgánico (el National...

Spanish

Open Data: a Key to Feeding 9 Billion People by 2050

September 18, 2015 Justice Wright, USDA Research, Education, and Economics mission area

NPR’s “The Takeaway” program recently examined the “The Biggest Challenges Facing America and the World.” The episode included an interview with USDA Chief Scientist and Undersecretary Catherine Woteki on the challenge of being able to feed a world population that is estimated to reach more than 9...

Food and Nutrition Technology

USDA Participated in a "First of Its Kind" Camp for DC-Area Teens Focused Specifically on Open Data and Agriculture

August 18, 2015 Joyce Hunter, Deputy CIO, Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Summer has arrived and young people all over the country are enjoying their time spent in summer camps. And while many camps involve athletics or camping out, others are meant to keep kids’ brains moving. Today’s camps are anything but boring. Science Technology Engineering, Agriculture and Math...

Technology

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...

Conservation Technology

The Price is Right: Local Beef Reporting in Vermont

July 22, 2015 Craig A. Morris, AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program Deputy Administrator

There’s no doubt about it – gears are turning in the world of local food production. From rural communities to large food retailers, local and regional food is a growing business across the country. In the USDA’s Market News division, developing market reports to keep up with the growing need for...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Financing for Development Conference Boosts Support for Open Data

July 15, 2015 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, leaders across the globe, in the public, non-governmental, and private sectors, committed to sharing and using data and to investing in the capacity to collect and analyze this data for sustainable...

Technology

Big Data for Small Producers - USDA Market News Now Covers 85 Farmers Markets

June 30, 2015 Craig A. Morris, Agricultural Marketing Service Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program Deputy Administrator

Farmers markets are an important part of local and regional food systems. Nationwide, 150,000 farmers and ranchers are selling their products directly to consumers to meet the growing demand for local food. Many sell their products at farmers markets, which can be a catalyst for future growth...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming Technology

Celebrating a Long History of Ingenuity at the National Maker Faire

June 18, 2015 Tawny Mata, Ph.D. Adviser, United States Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Scientist

For hundreds of years, agriculture has fostered a community of “makers” – people who have engineered the tools that ensure a steady, abundant supply of food and fiber under a wide variety of conditions. From the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, Mason jars in 1858, the gasoline tractor in 1892...

Technology

Using Open Data in Creative Ways to Solve Problems

May 28, 2015 Joyce Hunter, Acting CIO, Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning

Want to make better use of forest, park and trail datasets? Try a hackathon. A hackthon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on...

Technology
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