…dollar. The food dollar series for the USDA’s Economic Research Service measures annual spending by consumers on domestically produced food. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service. Share…
Productivity Growth and the Revival of Russian Agriculture
by Nicholas Rada, William Liefert, and Olga Liefert, USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Russia’s agricultural output fell during the country’s transition from a planned to a market…
USDA Seeks Nominees for Christmas Tree Promotion Board
…the establishment of 22 research and promotion boards that are industry-funded and empower agricultural industries with a framework to pool resources and combine efforts to develop new markets, strengthen existing…
Funding to Support the Agricultural Sciences
…programs in the food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences. NIFA investments also help upgrade agriculture and food science facilities and equipment necessary to conduct tropical and subtropical agricultural research…
USDA Announces $4.8 Million Available to Support Food Safety Outreach Program
…growth over the course of the program. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education, and extension and promotes transformative discoveries that solve societal challenges. NIFA support for the best…
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…
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….