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Statistical Information Critical to Efficient Markets

May 24, 2016 Lance Honig, Crops Branch Chief, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Starting next week, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will reach out to tens of thousands of farmers across the United States. Our interviewers will go door to door and make phone calls to collect the most accurate information possible about farmland in each state. In addition, we...

Conservation

In A Changing Climate What Investments Make Sense?

May 24, 2016 Beatrice Van Horne, U.S. Forest Service

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

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Rural Means Business: Bringing Tech Jobs to rural America

May 24, 2016 U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez

A group of coders in hooded sweatshirts and big headphones stare intently at their computer screens. In the corner, staff take a break at the foosball table, while a young woman in an oversized beanbag chair types away on her laptop. You might be picturing the headquarters of a Silicon Valley...

Technology

Schools across America Honored for Their "One in a Melon" Farm to School Programs

May 24, 2016 Janna Raudenbush, Public Affairs Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service

Back in March, we invited you to vote for the school district with your favorite farm to school program – one with exemplary initiatives, inspiring results; one that you think is ‘one in a melon’! Well, the results were tabulated and one district in each state has just received the “One in a Melon”...

Food and Nutrition

Forest Service Rookie an International Inspiration

May 24, 2016 John C. Heil III, U.S. Forest Service

Six months after being hired by the U.S. Forest Service, Angelica Perez-Delgado made a major impact, including international assistance to the country of Georgia, on her way to being named Rookie of the Year for the Pacific Southwest Region late in 2015. When a major storm event triggered a...

Forestry