USDA's Agricultural Research Service has released the first high-quality genome of the desert locust, which researchers hope will help reduce dependence on pesticides to control the pest. "Having a ...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture continued construction on a new agriculture research technology center in east Salinas.The center will research the sustainable production of crops.It will be run by ...

Former Governor of South Carolina, David Beasley, the Director of the World Food Program (WFP) in Rome recently did an exit interview with PBS as his term expires next month. In the interview, Beasley ...

The Agriculture Department is applying more scrutiny to research done by its employees alongside noncitizens. The directives, laid out in a memo which went out to USDA employees and research ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The USDA’s new National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture had its groundbreaking ceremony on Monday at the University of Nebraska’s Innovation Campus.

American farmers face many challenges in an often unpredictable economic and ecological climate. But perhaps they can rest a little easier knowing that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the ...

Judith Herreid, left, with her major Ph.D. adviser, Randa Jabbour, has been selected for a two-year fellowship with the Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory. (UW Photo) A recent University ...

This chapter introduces the second of the land grant colleges' functions, that of agricultural research. The colleges are the state-based component of the public agricultural research system; the ...

The University of Missouri launched a new center to explore the use of emerging technology in agriculture. In February, the university announced the Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center — ...

The U.S. food and agricultural sector is undergoing rapid change in the production, distribution, and consumption of food and fiber, and in technology. There have been dramatic increases in production ...