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If She Can See It, She Can Be It: Girl Scouts Learn STEM at USDA

April 26, 2018 Sally Gifford, USDA Communications Coordinator

“It felt a little buzzy,” said Lily Meritt, 7, a Daisy Girl Scout from Montgomery County, Maryland. She watched hungry mosquitoes through a plexiglass container as a USDA research scientist talked about pests that love to bug people. Lily and other D.C.-area Girl Scouts visited USDA headquarters to...

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Building Healthy and Vibrant Rural Communities Now and for Generations to Come

April 17, 2018 Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett

This was a speech originally read by USDA’s Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett at the National Rx Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia.

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