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GroupGAP: Food Safety Assurance for Growers and Buyers Big and Small

September 30, 2015 Charles Parrott, AMS Specialty Crops Program Deputy Administrator

In the produce industry, food safety is front and center on everyone’s mind. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released some of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) final rules, and retailers are looking to buy from FSMA-compliant suppliers. If you’re a retailer or large produce...

Health and Safety

In Conversation with #WomeninAg: Anita Adalja

September 30, 2015 Rachael Dubinsky, Office of Communications

Today in our Women’s Week blog series, we speak with Anita Adalja, the Farm Manager at Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture. A social worker who merged her career with farming, Anita is committed to food access solutions, community building and sustainable land stewardship. Arcadia is...

Conservation Initiatives

USDA is Making Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Possible through STEM and Collaboration

September 30, 2015 Bernetta Reese, USDA Office of Communications and Dr. Stephen Lowe, Office of the Chief Information Officer

Today, USDA will engage with citizen-science professionals, researchers, and stakeholders from local, state, Federal, and Tribal governments, as well as representatives of the academic, non-profits, and private sector to celebrate citizen science at the first-ever White House citizen science forum...

Research and Science