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Mapping the Future: CSU Students Tackle Real-World AI Challenges with USDA and NASA

Christopher Alvares, USDA Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer

USDA recently partnered with Colorado State University (CSU) for a successful hackathon, bringing together the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), the Forest Service, NASA, GSA's US Digital Corps, and Amazon Web Services.

Technology

USDA, 4-H, Equip Future Leaders to Succeed

Pat Swanson, USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator

In March, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke at the Iowa Ag Leaders Dinner about how USDA will ensure American agriculture leads the world, feeds the nation, and competes on a global stage that is fair and puts our farmers first.

Farming

Growing our Future with Military Children

Christine Tomkus, Military Spouse and Veteran Employment Program Manager, USDA

April is the Month of the Military Child.

Farming Food and Nutrition Forestry Initiatives Recreation Research and Science Rural

Apalachicola National Forest Hosts International Fire Professionals to Share Ideas on Wildfires, Healthy Forests

December 31, 2012 Susan Blake, National Forests in Florida, U.S. Forest Service

More than 8,000 miles from home, fire management officers from Australia and New Zealand recently visited the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida to share techniques and strategies in the use of prescribed fire. “We see how the use of frequent fire intervals helps manage the different fuel types...

Health and Safety

The Thousand-Acre Woods

December 31, 2012 Jamie Johnson, NRCS Kentucky

For Harlan County, Ky. landowners Jim and Joanne Corum, conservation is a way of life. For the Corums, making the choice to enroll their land in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)—one of the largest private-land conservation programs of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Conservation

Secretary's Column: USDA’s Accomplishments in 2012

December 28, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Over the course of 2012, farm families and rural communities faced a number of challenges. A record drought impacted much of the country and many were impacted by a major hurricane, flooding and severe storms. However, thanks to the resilience of rural Americans, our communities are still going...

Conservation Rural

FAS Program Helps Provide Qualified Teachers in Malawi

December 27, 2012 Kate Snipes, Agricultural Counselor, U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya

School children in the rural communities of Malawi will soon have access to more qualified primary school educators, thanks in part to the Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) Food for Progress (FFP) program.

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Trade

Value-Added Grants Help Minnesota Pork Farm Meet Growing Demand

December 26, 2012 Adam Czech, Minnesota USDA Public Information Officer

“We think that fresh air and sunshine are the best health guarantee.” That’s the quote you’ll see after opening a brochure from Pastures A Plenty Farm. Spend an hour with the VanDerPol family and you quickly understand that those words are much more than just a marketing slogan. It’s the family’s...

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

No Más Hambre: Un llamado a la acción comunitaria

December 21, 2012 Roxana Barillas, Subdirectora del Centro para Organizaciones Religiosas y Comunitarias del Departamento de Agricultura de EE.UU.

La cumbre NO MAS HAMBRE celebrada recientemente en Washington DC para crear conciencia sobre el hambre en la comunidad latina reunió a líderes gubernamentales, grupos sin fines de lucro, empresas y miembros de la comunidad para hablar sobre soluciones a un problema endémico que a menudo pasa...

Spanish Food and Nutrition

No Más Hambre: A Community Call to Action

December 21, 2012 Roxana Barillas, Deputy Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

The NO MAS HAMBRE Summit recently held in Washington DC to raise awareness of hunger in the Latino community brought together government, nonprofit, corporate and community leaders to talk about solutions to an endemic problem that often goes unnoticed -- nearly one in three Latino households with...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives