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Education Builds Bioenergy Systems

August 07, 2012 Daniel Cassidy, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture/Office of the Chief Scientist

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 profile. Emerging bioenergy systems hold the promise of helping to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, increase economic prosperity...

USDA Results Energy Research and Science

Agriculture's Role in Ecosystem Services

August 07, 2012 Jenna Jadin, AAAS Fellow/Advisor

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. Most of us accept that some services—such as waste water treatment and emergency response, for example—have an economic...

Conservation

A Staple of the Farmers Market Since 1918

August 07, 2012 Michael T. Jarvis, AMS Public Affairs Director

It was 1918 when Elmer Moje first took crops to market with his father on a horse and wagon in North Tonawanda, New York. Moje, who turns 99 later this month, still takes his crops to the market once or twice a week. “I don’t have the wagon or the horse anymore,” he says with a laugh. “Back then it...

Food and Nutrition

An Indiana Community Receives an Improved Water system with USDA Support

August 07, 2012 Darrell Mowery, USDA Indiana Public Information Officer

Oakland City, Indiana is the home of Oakland City University, the only General Baptist affiliate university in the nation, with a global campus providing over 40 degrees. An organization of this stature, along with the surrounding community, places a lot of emphasis on faith.

Rural