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USDA Utilities Administrator Announces Broadband Funding for Rural Residents

April 21, 2011 Amy Mund, USDA Colorado Public Information Coordinator

USDA Rural Development Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein and the Rural Development Broadband Division Staff welcomed over 200 people to the National Broadband Workshop on April 20 – 21, 2011 in Downtown Denver. While rural communities face unique challenges in creating and...

Rural Technology

Flex Fuel Pumps and a Green Energy Economy

April 21, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross posted from the White House blog: As gasoline prices continue to rise across the country, USDA is working with farmers and entrepreneurs to secure our nation’s long-term energy future and give Americans more choices about where to spend their gas dollars: at home or abroad. For the past two...

Energy

Let's Help Kids Eat Healthy!

April 21, 2011 Edward Mekeel, USDA FNS Public Affairs Specialist, Southwest Regional Office

Seeing the results of Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) programs up close is always an amazing experience as an FNS employee. In this case, I had that opportunity in Dallas recently at the Jubilee Park & Community Center. Founded in 1997, along with AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity and several faith...

Food and Nutrition

Methuselah, a Bristlecone Pine is Thought to be the Oldest Living Organism on Earth

April 21, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service

Bristlecone pines are a small group of trees that reach an age believed by many scientists to be far greater than that of any other living organism known to man -- up to nearly 5,000 years.

Forestry