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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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Cropland Consolidation: Widespread, Substantial, and Persistent

April 26, 2018 Robert A. Hoppe and James M. MacDonald, Economic Research Service

Since the 1980s, the number of very large crop farms with at least 2,000 acres of cropland has nearly doubled while midsize farms (100 to 999 acres of cropland) fell by nearly half as U.S. cropland has consolidated on fewer, larger farms.

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