…to the USDA Service Center in Kansas City, Missouri this week, and take part in a town hall Friday at the American Royal Complex hosted by the Agribusiness Council of…
USDA Announces $4.8 Million Available to Support Food Safety Outreach Program
…Ramaswamy. “We’ve successfully expanded the program’s reach through establishment of a National Coordination Center and four regional centers across the U.S.” The Food Safety Outreach Program supports projects that encourage…
2017 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer Renews Call for Excellence in Nutrition Research
…the quality of data that nutrition research is generating, especially data used for formulating nutrition guidelines and recommendations. While calling on industry to provide more support for research, Bier has…
NFU President Attends March for Science in D.C.
…federal policy. Johnson also said there should be more publicly funded, independent and peer-reviewed agricultural research to inform both farmers and policymakers. More than 70 percent of U.S. agricultural research…
A Better Way to Pasteurize Eggs
An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and his colleagues have developed a technology that rapidly pasteurizes eggs and could sharply reduce the number of illnesses caused each year by egg-borne…
National Dairy FARM Program Releases Environmental Stewardship Reference Manual to Celebrate Earth Day
The National Dairy FARM Program has released its Environmental Stewardship Continuous Improvement Reference Manual in cooperation with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Released in celebration of Earth Day, the…
Funding to Educate the Future Agricultural Science Workforce
…new scientists in the agricultural research, extension, and education arena.” The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for foundational and translational research,…
Food, Conservation Groups Invest in Soil to Sustain Food Production
…help others working on soil health efforts in the areas of research, education and networking. According to the organizations’ leaders, the scale-up of integrated research and soil health promotion is…
Pear Industry Votes to Continue Marketing Order
…by the Fresh Pear and Processed Pear Committees, provides authority for grade, size and quality regulations, for inspection and for research projects to benefit pear growers and processors in these…
ARS Announces New Scientific Impact Video Series
Andrew Moyer, in his Peoria laboratory, discovered the process for mass producing penicillin. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is pleased to debut a video series highlighting important scientific advances that…
The Potential Effects of Increased Demand for U.S. Agricultural Exports on Metro and Nonmetro Employment
by Steven Zahniser, Tom Hertz, Peter Dixon, and Maureen Rimmer, Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? ERS estimates that U.S. agricultural exports supported about 1.1 million full-time, civilian jobs…
USDA to Hold Expert Panel Meeting on Publication of Farm Operator Demographics
…available in the Federal Register Notice published on April 20, 2017. For more information, contact Linda J. Young, Director, Research and Development Division, telephone 202-690-0027, eFax: 855-593-5472, or email: hq_rdd_od@nass.usda.gov….
More Farmers Considering Drone Use
…commercial use of drones, including for agricultural purposes. RnR Market Research in April 2016 predicted the agriculture drone market would be worth $3.69 billion by the year 2022. A forecast…
2017 Corn Plantings Falling Behind
…average. Over the next ten days, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting normal to cooler temperatures in the Eastern Corn Belt and normal to above average precipitation…