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USDA Engages Public through Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

April 15, 2016 Samuel Crowell, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, USDA Office of the Chief Scientist

Recently, USDA participated in the White House launch of the Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (CCS) Toolkit. By providing federal employees with information about developing CCS activities, the Toolkit will eventually allow the Federal government to design more programs that ask citizens to...

Research and Science Technology

More than a Pretty View for rural America

April 15, 2016 Mike Illenberg, U.S. Forest Service

This may sound like a cliché, but our job at the U.S. Forest Service is to do something every day to make your life better. And we mean it. Our work safeguards clean air, clean water, and beautiful, resilient and productive forests and grasslands. These effects of healthy national forests and...

Forestry

Ready to have Market Data as Close as your Smartphone? Here We Go!

April 15, 2016 Joe Gaynor, Chief, Market News Director, Dairy Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service

Earlier this week, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) hosted a webinar on an exciting new initiative to provide unbiased market data to users digitally. Called the Market Analysis & Reporting Services (MARS), this dynamic, innovative technology will assist USDA Market News in collecting...

Conservation