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Bringing Back the Bees

January 26, 2012 Renae Anderson, NRCS Wisconsin

A recently awarded USDA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) will fund research into bee-friendly seed mixes. A partnership made up of the Xerces Society, University of Wisconsin Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Wisconsin is working to...

Conservation

USDA Visits Farmers Who are Bringing Locally Grown and Milled Flour back to an Oregon Community

January 26, 2012 Jill Rees, Oregon USDA Public Information Officer

There are only a few tables at Randy’s Main Street café, but this is where the small community of Brownsville, Oregon, gathers to sort out the world’s problems and, sometimes, hatch some pretty big ideas. Willow Coberly and Harry Stalford, the owners and operators of Stalford Seed Farms, have had...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

Small Business Owners Urged to Attend DC Event to Learn How to do Business with USDA

January 26, 2012 Russell Avalos, Program Analyst, USDA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

USDA’s continued commitment to broadening small business access to contract opportunities stimulates small business ownership and economic growth, creates jobs, and results in improving the quality of life across America. USDA currently awards over 52 percent of all contract dollars to small...

USDA Results Initiatives Rural