Skip to main content
Skip to main content

USDA Blog

Filters

Category/Topic

Authored Date

Showing: 1 - 2 of 2 Results
Applied Filters

Serving Twice: Military Veteran Farmers Get a New Question in the Census of Agriculture

May 30, 2017 Lance Daugherty, USDA NASS Oklahoma Data Collection Center Coordinator, USAF Veteran, and Cattle Rancher

I am a rancher and a military veteran, in addition to being a data collection coordinator for USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). That makes me particularly passionate about one of the additions to this year’s Census of Agriculture: a question about military veteran status. All...

Farming Research and Science

ARS Scientist’s Life-Saving Work Fighting Parasite Earns Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal Recognition

May 09, 2017 Dennis O’Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

By probing the life cycles of parasites, Jitender Dubey’s research during the past 40 years has been instrumental in saving lives, curbing disabilities in newborn infants and greatly reducing the number of horses, cattle and lambs killed each year by infectious diseases. Dubey, a parasitologist with...

Research and Science