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Producers Can Now go "Whole Hog" on New Heat Stress App for Pigs
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2023
News Release: HotHog, a new smartphone application ("app") that predicts heat stress in pigs, is now available for download and use, a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists announced today.
USDA Applauds Washingtons Tribal Eligibility Demonstration Project Expansion
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2023
Release: San Francisco, June 15, 2023 USDAs Food and Nutrition Service has approved Washington Department of Social and Health Services request to expand their Tribal Eligibility Demonstration Project to five additional tribal nations. Stacy Dean, deputy under secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, shared the news at an event yesterday on Port Gamble SKlallam tribal lands.
Public press releases or notices: U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service publishes nine in May
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
There were nine press releases or notices published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service in May.
USDA Celebrates SNAP Online Purchasing Now Available in All 50 States
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2023
Release: WASHINGTON, June 9, 2023 The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that, in partnership with states, territories and retailers across the country, online purchasing using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits is now available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
NIFA Invests $9.5 Million to Promote Innovation in Animal Reproduction (A1211)
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
The Animal Reproduction program area priority within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative funds projects that focus on enhancing gonadal function, evaluating transcriptomics in sperm, preventing pregnancy loss, and improving estrus response to enhance fertility in livestock and aquacultured food animals.
NIFA Invests $6.7 Million to Advance the Sustainable Bioeconomy through Biobased Products (A1414)
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
This program area priority within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative supports integrated projects to advance biobased products, biomass systems or biomass-generated power to enable the bioeconomy in a manner which reduces adverse impacts to the environment.
NIFA Invests $16.2 Million in Innovative Plant Breeding Research (AFRI A1141)
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
Agriculture of the future will be enabled by genome design, innovative breeding methods, data analysis and knowledge of molecular and biological processes.
Study Unravels the Impact of Rockweed Harvest at the Bed-Scale
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
This story was originally published by the University of Maine and is reprinted here with permission.
State of Success: National Oklahoma Day
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
The Hatch Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in March 1887, set up a national network of agricultural experiment stations with a mission to conduct research that would make America's farms more productive.
Celebrate National Higher Education Day
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
NIFA’s education programs are designed to enhance the food and agriculture workforce pipeline, including disciplines supportive of the food and agriculture sector, through programs that support workforce development, increase agricultural literacy, strengthen student recruitment and retention and build educational capacity.
USDA’s Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) Creates $85m Economic Impact, Increases Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Decreases Food Insecurity in Year 3
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
The Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center (NTAE) has released Year 3 (2021-2022) evaluation impact findings for the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP).
#BeatPlasticPollution this World Environment Day
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
Hosted this year by Côte d'Ivoire in partnership with the Netherlands, the day is focusing on solutions to plastic pollution.
The Prevalence of the “Natural” Claim on Food Product Packaging
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
U.S. food suppliers make claims about their production processes on food packaging that highlight attributes some consumers want while charging a higher price than for unlabeled products.
USDA Researching New England's Ability to be Self-Reliant in Food Production
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
Rarely do we ever know how much food is actually grown, produced, and then circulated from within a sub-national region.
BRIDGEcereal: Self-Teaching Web App Improves Speed, Accuracy of Classifying DNA Variations Among Cereal Varieties
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
Agricultural Research Service and Washington State University scientists have developed an innovative web app called BRIDGEcereal that can quickly and accurately analyze the vast amount of genomic data now available for cereal crops and organize the material into intuitive charts that identify patterns locating genes of interest.
Connecting Local Producers to Montana Schools
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 8, 2023
Bringing together local producers and schools was the objective of the “Bringing the Farm to School” producer training in Hardin, Montana.
USDA Researching New England's Ability to be Self-Reliant in Food Production
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2023
News Release: Rarely do we ever know how much food is actually grown, produced, and then circulated from within a sub-national region. But researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) recently participated in a cross-institutional study involving 16 researchers to determine what it would take for New England states to increase its regional self-reliance to 30 percent by 2030.
BRIDGEcereal: Self-Teaching Web App Improves Speed, Accuracy of Classifying DNA Variations Among Cereal Varieties
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2023
News Release: PULLMAN, WA, June 5, 2023-Agricultural Research Service and Washington State University scientists have developed an innovative web app called BRIDGEcereal that can quickly and accurately analyze the vast amount of genomic data now available for cereal crops and organize the material into intuitive charts that identify patterns locating genes of interest.
State of Success: National Utah Day
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 4, 2023
The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station (UAES) was established in 1888 and is the historic foundation of research, teaching and Extension at Utah State University.
USDA NIFA to Invest $12.7M in Sustainable Agroecosystems (A1451)
By USDA Newswire Report | Jun 4, 2023
The Sustainable Agroecosystems (A1451) program area priority within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative funds research projects that focus on the improvement of ecosystem health and output of ecosystem services in managed production systems — like croplands, forests and rangelands — that are currently under stress or at risk from climate change, pests, pathogens, invasive plants and increased environmental pressures.