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USDA Removes Two New York Townships from Regulation for Golden Nematode

January 28, 2011 Greg Rosenthal, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Riverdale, MD

By itself, it would have been great news when USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently announced the absence of golden nematode in the townships of Elba and Byron in Genesee County, New York, and removed these areas from regulation. APHIS and the New York State Department...

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USDA Creates New Solutions for Products and Importers

January 20, 2011 Alyn Kiel, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Riverdale, MD

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service employees recently brought some holiday cheer to an unlikely group—basket weavers from the Rwanda Basket Company. The Rwanda Basket Company provides training and tools to basket weavers in Rwanda. The Company helps to open overseas markets for the...

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Smokejumpers as “Beetle Busters”

January 12, 2011 Jennifer Jones, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management

While many USDA Forest Service employees spend their summers working as Smokejumpers fighting wildfires in the west, they in turn spend their falls in the east working as Beetle Busters, helping the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) combat the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB).

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2011 Healthy Birds Calendar Tips to Poultry Owners

January 06, 2011 Madelaine Fletcher, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Riverdale, MD

Backyard poultry owners will find colorful chickens and turkeys, as well as ducks, parrots and some grand geese among a 12-month spread of domestic, wild and exotic birds in the 2011 Backyard Biosecurity calendar. They’ll also find a year’s worth of solid information to help them raise healthy birds...

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