…findings were published in the November 2016 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. The research team included Charles Stephensen, with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center…
Funding to Ensure Access to Needed Veterinary Services
…Tim VanDerPloeg, talk about the program’s impact online at Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Pays Dividends. USDA has invested $19 billion in research and development since 2009, touching the lives…
Almond Board: Spatial Mapping Data Uses
…viable and quantifiable. One such analysis has determined where the more permeable soils exist within our agricultural footprint to understand where groundwater recharge research and potential application are best suited….
Lab System Aims to Protect State’s Livestock
…and Research Center in Tulare. That small facility was designed more for research than as a diagnostic lab, explained John Adaska, the branch chief in Tulare. Not only will the…
Looking for ‘Natural Enemies’ in Asia to Control Invasive Plants
By Sharon Durham USDA Agriculture Research Service A caterpillar, Lygomusotima stria, on a Lygodium microphyllum leaf in Singapore. (Image courtesy of USDA/ARS) This June, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ecologist Melissa…
Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects
…lab to the boardroom. Since 2009, through the Small Business Innovation Research program alone, USDA has awarded nearly 850 research and development grants to American-owned, independently operated, for-profit businesses, allowing…
NMPF Pres. Commemorates Centennial / Sets Path for Future
…with promotional organizations Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, as well as the U.S. Dairy Export Council. National Milk and the dairy industry as a whole…
American Lamb Board Appointments Announced
…the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order, which created the program under the authority of the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (pdf). Organizational Structure The 13-member Board…
UC Releases New Cost Study for Growing Almonds
…Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers and educators draw on local expertise to conduct agricultural, environmental, economic, youth development and nutrition research that helps California thrive. Learn more at ucanr.edu. …
New Rangeland Fire Science Plan
…plans are also based upon well-vetted research,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Balancing conservation with agricultural demands is no easy task. The decisions Western farmers and ranchers and other private…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
by Christopher Burns and Ryan Kuhns, USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Midsize farms. Defined as those with gross cash farm income (GCFI) between $350,000 and $1 million—represent…
Teal Pumpkins
…by Food Allergy Research and Education or FARE. Food allergies in the U-S affect every one in 13 kids. For anyone wanting to offer up Candy alternatives, FARE suggests items…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…meetings, and seeing facilities such as Sacramento Rendering Company and a Foster Farms feed mill. Another notable tour arranged by the Division’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) (https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/frep/) included…
Herbal Answer to a Longer Life?
Today Cathy Isom answers a question many of us, and researchers, have had. Could there be an herbal secret to a longer life? That’s coming up on This Land of…