…Valley land subsidence due to groundwater extraction was observed as early as the 1920s. The most extensive monitoring and research related to subsidence in the Valley was carried out in…
U.S. Trends in Food Availability
by Jeanine Bentley, Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Since 1970, the U.S. obesity rate has almost tripled for adults and more than tripled for children and adolescents. Growing…
National Dairy Promotion and Research Board Members Appointed
…stakeholders. For information on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, please contact Whitney A. Rick by phone at (202) 720-6961 or e-mail at Whitney.Rick@ams.usda.gov. National Dairy Promotion & Research…
Postharvest Practices Influence Cherry Splitting
…able to reduce this cracking by finding engineering concepts, compounds and mitigation techniques to reduce cracking.” Donis-Gonzalez, the lead researcher on the project, recently presented his findings to California cherry…
USDA Removes Personal information from Animal Welfare Act Documents
…has shared the information online for the last decade, including inspection reports, research facility reports and lists of persons licensed under the Animal Welfare Act. APHIS has also been publishing…
Scientists Give Old Elm Tree a High-Tech Helping Hand
By Jan Suszkiw, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) USDA-ARS scientists will try to “cryopreserve” the twigs of this old historical elm in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to safegaurd the tree’s…
State Agriculture Leaders Call Food Safety a Farm Bill Priority
…Grant Program and the Market Access Program. The group also wants robust funding for research, new tools for animal disease coordination and investments in voluntary conservation programs. NASDA represents the…
ARS Genetics Researcher Named Fairchild Medal Recipient
by Dennis O’Brien, Agricultural Research Service Alan Meerow with Griffinia intermedia (Amaryllidaceae) in Brazil. Photo: Judy Dutilh. Alan W. Meerow, a research geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s (USDA)…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…and other crops. Pests and pathogens also loom large among growers’ concerns, and University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors spoke at the meeting to share their latest research and…
Funding for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced 11 grants totaling $3 million for Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) projects focused on…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…Ken Goldberg — director of the People and Robots Initiative at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute — and UC…
Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food
…research centered on food, including research into communicating about food, research into food-related topics like diabetes, and into food and social justice issues. “We’re hoping to help translate research into…
Online Grocery Shopping Poised to Boom in 2017
Researchers suggest online grocery shopping is expected to expand by nearly 50 percent by this summer. NPD Group, a New York-based market research company, reports that an estimated 52 million…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…(VI-AL) Rep. Tom O’Halleran (AZ-1) Rep. Darren Soto (FL-9) Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Jurisdiction: Policies, statutes, and markets relating to horticulture, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and ornamentals; bees; and organic…