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A Blueprint for Stronger Service

January 09, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Today at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 93 rd Annual Meeting, I thanked about 10,000 farmers for helping to make U.S. agriculture a bright spot in our nation’s economy. In the past few decades, U.S. agriculture has become the second most productive sector of the American economy, thanks to...

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Earth Team Volunteers Cleaning Mississippi Lake

January 09, 2012 Justin Fritscher, NRCS Mississippi

A special Earth Team volunteer group was recently formed to benefit Ross Barnett Reservoir, in central Mississippi. Keep the Rez Beautiful was created by an NRCS employee in late 2010 to promote conservation and water quality in the reservoir. Earth Team is the volunteer workforce for USDA’s Natural...

Conservation

In Oregon, Beaver Dams are Being Used to Restore Habitat

January 09, 2012 Matthew Burks, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

The Forest Service is known for developing partnerships to get the greatest good out of scarce fiscal resources. On the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest one of the partners is four-legged.

Conservation Forestry

People’s Garden Helps to Strengthen a Community in Costa Rica

January 09, 2012 Kelly Stange, Agricultural Attaché, FAS Office in Costa Rica

The Foreign Agricultural Service office in San Jose broke ground on its own People’s Garden in Fall 2009. Ever since that day our embassy employees and their families, as well as members of the local community, have learned about the benefits of eating fresh, healthy foods.

Trade Initiatives