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Creating Better Vaccines

February 28, 2022 Margaret Lawrence, Writer/Editor, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture

A University of Minnesota (UM) scientist is working to improve vaccine options for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) that can affect poultry (such as chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, domestic ducks, geese, and guinea fowl) and wild birds (especially waterfowl). Through her National...

Research and Science

Floral Hemp: From the Field and Greenhouse to CBD

February 24, 2022 Alexandra Nseir, NASS Public Affairs Specialist

Last week, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the National Hemp Report, which contains the results of the 2021 Hemp Acreage and Production Survey. The hemp survey collected information on total planted and harvested area, yield, production, and value of hemp in the...

Research and Science

Fatty Acids and Mortality: ARS Scientists Get to the Heart of the Matter

February 17, 2022 Scott Elliott, Agricultural Research Service Office of Communications

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. That’s about 25% of America’s mortality rate. Heart disease costs the United States about $363 billion each year from 2016 to 2017 – almost $1...

Research and Science