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Partners Launch No Kid Hungry in New Mexico

March 21, 2011 Andrea McCauley, Public Affairs Director, Southwest Region, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Staff from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Southwest regional office was pleased to join the national non-profit, Share Our Strength, in Albuquerque, for the launch of their No Kid Hungry campaign to end childhood hunger in New Mexico. The No Kid Hungry campaign is a public-private partnership...

Food and Nutrition

Rural Development Helps Tribal Communities Grow

March 21, 2011 Dallas Tonsager, Under Secretary for Rural Development, USDA

As President Obama challenges Americans to win the future, we at USDA are implementing ways to do so by helping tribal communities across the country out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build our global competition. Starting in rural America, but more specifically within tribal communities, we see an...

USDA Results Rural Technology

What Do Cows and Birds Have in Common?

March 21, 2011 Tracey Jean Wolfe, NRCS Nevada

“What’s good for the birds is good for the cows,” says Duane Coombs, ranch manager for Smith Creek Ranch in central Nevada. That’s why Coombs and his neighbor on the other side of the Desatoya Mountain Range are working to restore habitat for the western sage-grouse, a chicken-sized bird that is...

Conservation