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Vote For Your Favorite Video Today!

May 01, 2012 Julie Curti, USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

The public voting period for the Communities on the Move Video Challenge is in full swing! Browse our video gallery and vote for your favorites daily until Friday, May 11 th. These videos showcase some of the innovative approaches community and faith-based groups are taking to encouraging healthier...

Initiatives

Consumers Find Food Products with Less Trans Fat

May 01, 2012 Ilya Rahkovsky, Diet, Safety, and Health Economics Branch, Economic Research Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio.

Research and Science

Shovels of Gold Symbolic of New Fire Protection for the Residents of a South Dakota Reservation

May 01, 2012 Public Affairs Specialist Tammi Schone and Rural Development Coordinator Christine Sorensen.

While the shovels may have all been painted gold, they weren’t just bought off the shelf; some were used, donated, came in different sizes, and had different uses. It was a metaphor for the day as community members from the small community of Parmelee, South Dakota, located on the Rosebud Indian...

Rural

25,000 Senegalese Schoolchildren to Benefit from USDA-Supported Project

May 01, 2012 Linda Habenstreit, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) partners with a variety of non-profit groups, cooperatives and international organizations to promote food security in developing countries around the world. The following guest blog highlights the successful partnership between FAS and Counterpart...

Food and Nutrition Trade

Falcon Nests put Temporary Halt to Rock Wall Climbing in Washington

May 01, 2012 Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

Climbers are being asked to temporarily avoid a popular rock wall on the western slopes of Washington’s Cascade Mountains because it’s become a nesting spot for peregrine falcons.

Forestry