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Mapping the Future: CSU Students Tackle Real-World AI Challenges with USDA and NASA

Christopher Alvares, USDA Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer

USDA recently partnered with Colorado State University (CSU) for a successful hackathon, bringing together the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), the Forest Service, NASA, GSA's US Digital Corps, and Amazon Web Services.

Technology
Students asking USDA Forest Service GIS specialist (Ty Nietupski) for technical advice and guidance on their approach

USDA, 4-H, Equip Future Leaders to Succeed

Pat Swanson, USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator

In March, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke at the Iowa Ag Leaders Dinner about how USDA will ensure American agriculture leads the world, feeds the nation, and competes on a global stage that is fair and puts our farmers first.

Farming
Youth delegates from the 2025 National 4-H Conference stand in front of USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Growing our Future with Military Children

Christine Tomkus, Military Spouse and Veteran Employment Program Manager, USDA

April is the Month of the Military Child.

Farming Food and Nutrition Forestry Initiatives Recreation Research and Science Rural
USDA Military Spouse and Veteran Employment Program Manager Christine Tomkus speaks to children about opportunities in agriculture at Whiteman AFB in Missouri

Increasing Transparency around WIC Infant Formula Contracts

December 20, 2022 Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

WIC is a powerful public health program, serving nearly half of all babies born in the country. To help keep program costs manageable, Congress requires WIC state agencies to contract with an infant formula manufacturer to provide discounted formula for purchase with WIC benefits. The state agencies...

Food and Nutrition

A Career Dedicated to Building More Inclusive Food Systems

December 16, 2022 USDA Research, Education, and Economics Communications Team

33.8 million – that’s the number of people in the U.S. who lived in food-insecure households in 2021, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. Fortunately, USDA and leaders like Tambra Raye Stevenson are working to tackle nutrition insecurity – especially in underserved communities.

Equity Research and Science

Alternative Uses for Fladry

December 15, 2022 Gail Keirn, Wildlife Services Communication Program Specialist, APHIS

Wildlife Services (WS) experts are exploring how fladry, a nonlethal tool used to protect cattle, sheep, and other livestock from wolves, can prevent other wildlife damage.

Animals

USDA Partners with Purdue University to Develop Video Series to Illustrate Shell Egg Processing and Production Sanitation

December 15, 2022 Jennifer Porter, Deputy Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service’s Livestock and Poultry Program

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Purdue University have developed a series of training videos that illustrate proper sanitation assessment techniques to evaluate shell egg processing equipment. While the practices in these videos are required...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

Top Box Foods: A Simple and Stress-Free Way to Get Delicious, Nutritious Food in Chicago - Within any Budget

December 07, 2022 Sandra MacMartin, Public Affairs Specialist, Midwest Regional Office with guest author Olivia Rodriguez, Outreach and Communications Manager, Top Box Foods

Top Box Foods is not a grocery store, farmers market, or food bank. Top Box Foods is a community-driven non-profit, founded in Chicago in 2012, that creates access to healthy and affordable food for the communities they serve. Customers place orders online or via phone for nutritious food which is...

Food and Nutrition

Barbeque, Gumbo, Ice Cream and Team USA – America Leads with our Best at the FIFA World Cup

December 01, 2022 Krissy Young, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

There are only a few things in life that can bring together and excite a global community, and food and sports are two of those things!

Trade

ARS Project Supports Indigenous Seed Sovereignty

November 29, 2022 Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications

USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is helping ensure that native plants with cultural, historical, medicinal, and edible significance remain available for future generations.

Equity Research and Science