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A Sweet Camp for Native Youth
Maple syrup collection in a sugar bush. NIFA grants support camps that allow tribal youth to experience cultural tradition while learning about plant science. (iStock image) Many children look forward...
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Enhancing the Flavor of Food through Plant Breeding
Plant breeding can lead to new varieties that taste great and are easier to grow, giving you choices if you are growing them or getting them from a farmers market or grocery store. Vegetables are...
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1890 Land Grant University Transform City Kid into Ag School’s Research Leader
Dr. Carolyn Brooks had little exposure to agriculture while growing up in the city but, thanks to a love for biology nurtured at a 1890’s Land Grant University, she knows plenty now and even served as...
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USDA Strengthens Partnership with 1890s Universities
The USDA and the Council of 1890 Universities today renewed their memorandum of understanding that reaffirms and sustains the partnership between USDA and the historically black colleges created under...
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Training Pipeline Quenches Dairy’s Thirst for College Grads
The Dairy Education and Training Consortium (USDETC), supported with a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant, provides hand-on training to college students with backgrounds in dairy...
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Bridging the Language Barrier for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
AAPI Month - May 2015. Celebrating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. A man holding a girl on his shoulders with a tree behind them. This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the...
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Boosting Farm Profits and the Ag Industry in the U.S. Virgin Islands
NIFA supports the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) in all U.S. states and territories. The U.S. Virgin Islands hardly ever experience temperatures below 68 degrees Fahrenheit,...
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Transferring Dead Trees from Source of Wildfire Fuel to Biofuel
Researchers are harvesting beetle-killed trees in the Rocky Mountain region for use as feedstock for biofuel. (iStock image) This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog....
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The New Wave of Wheat: Increasing Resistant Starch to Improve Health Benefits
Brittany Hazard, a University of California-Davis doctoral student working on wheat and resistant starch research, collects samples from a wheat field for analysis at the UC Davis’ Dubcovsky Lab. This...
View ArticleKeeping an Eye on the Nation’s Chemical Climate to Protect Water Resources
Getting from Point A to Point B is sometimes a difficult task; that’s why we have maps. However, making maps is not always easy, either, especially when the image you’re trying to capture is carried...
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Behind the Scenes of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative: Jill...
Jill Auburn, National Program Leader for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Beginning Farmer and Ranchers Development Program, is one of the original members of USDA’s Know Your Farmer,...
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Feed Thy Neighbor: South LA Youth Use Neighborhood Gardens to Educate, Better...
Temiloluwa Salako, a Cultivar with RootDownLA, shows off a grain plant called amaranth that is growing in one of the program’s community gardens. Salako was recently accepted to Pitzer College after...
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Nothing Fishy about Probiotics
Researchers Dr. Kenneth Cain, University of Idaho, and Dr. Douglas Call, Washington State University, have developed a probiotic that fights Coldwater Disease in trout and salmon. They found the...
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Training the Next Generation of Watershed Managers to Fight Drought
Student interns from the California State University System work on a watershed management project. A NIFA-administered grant has funded nearly 220 interns who worked more than 77,000 hours on projects...
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Second Morrill Act Redux: America’s 1890s Land Grant Universities Academic...
USDA joins everyone celebrating 125 years of the Second Morrill Act, which has provided educational opportunities for all. Booker T. Washington. George Washington Carver. Educators par excellence....
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An Agricultural Legacy: Agriculture Strides through the Generations
Dr. Antoine Alston is professor and associate dean for academic studies in North Carolina A&T State University’s School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. He is a nationally recognized...
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UTEP Researchers Take a Different Path to Tackle International Drought Issues
Scientists from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) are helping policy makers and residents manage their ever-shrinking water resources using new and different approaches. (Image by Stephanie...
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Bioenergy, Bioproducts Education Program Builds Student Confidence, Equips...
Morina Ricablanca teaches bioenergy and other subjects to special needs students at East Hoke Middle School in North Carolina. (Image courtesy of Morina Ricablanca) Being an educator is in Morina...
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Red, White and Blue: Sustainable, Domestic Dye for Denim
“Many farmers in the Southeast are planting indigo as a cash crop alternative to tobacco.” (Image courtesy of Sarah Bellos) Blue jeans are a classic symbol of American fashion, but did you ever wonder...
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Improving the Safety of Leafy Greens
Sadhana Ravishankar, associate professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, led a team of researchers at the University of Arizona that discovered...
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