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100+ Years of Tracking Nutrients Available in the U.S. Food Supply

May 27, 2014 Hazel A.B. Hiza, PhD, RDN, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. What’s in the food we eat? Have you ever wondered if the foods past generations ate as children were more nutritious...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

NIFA Small Business Grant Could Help Quench Thirst Around the World

May 27, 2014 Leif Nielson and Isaac Madsen, National Science Foundation Fellows assigned to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Clean drinking water for the world is a pretty tall order, considering that the United Nations says nearly a billion...

Research and Science

Watching Our Water

May 20, 2014 Ann Perry, USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff

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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. There’s no farming without water. Recent droughts in the United States and elsewhere underscore our need to conserve...

Conservation Research and Science

Helping Honey Bees' Health

May 13, 2014 Kim Kaplan, ARS Information Staff and Brian K. Mabry, USDA Office of Communications

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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. You’ve probably heard that the honey bees in this country are in trouble, with about one-third of our managed colonies...

Research and Science

Secretary's Column: Helping America's Farmers Rise to the Challenge of Climate Change

May 09, 2014 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Farmers, ranchers and foresters have long understood the need to care for our land and water—not only because preserving those resources for our children and their children is the right thing to do, but because they know that our farms and forests are more productive and efficient when they’re...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Forestry Research and Science

A Lifetime of Statistics

May 06, 2014 Joseph T. Reilly, Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics 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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. As long as I can remember, I’ve had a passion for numbers and statistics. That’s why I’ve dedicated the last 39 years of...

Research and Science

Getting Geeky at the 3rd Annual USA Science and Engineering Festival

May 06, 2014 Tawny Mata, USDA 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 the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. When you think of agriculture do you think of science and engineering? You should! Farmers are some of our original...

Animals Plants Research and Science