Agricultural Research Service

USDA’s new answer to cutting food waste by 50%: Jelly ice

An investment from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is paving the way for a new type of ice cube to revolutionize how industries…

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Meet the Presidential Rank Award winner, a cattle expert who sometimes gets cow pies on his boots.

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Sammies-recognized USDA engineer extending lives of dams, preventing major disasters

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Federal scientists invent a possible new way to disinfect surfaces, without the harmful side effects

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Johnie Jenkins, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher, discussed ongoing Mississippi State University and USDA research with cotton researchers and breeders touring facilities in the mid-South. This group gathered at MSU’s R.R. Foil Plant Science Research Center. (Photo by MSU Ag Communications/Scott Corey)

USDA employee recognized for over 5 decades of civil service

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Dr. Pamela Starke-Reed: USDA creates nutritional information database

The Agriculture Department is aiming to create an online database of nutritional data for all the packaged food. It’s called the New Open Data Partnership…

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Hyun Lillehoj: Research is a ‘game changer’ for poultry industry

The commercial poultry industry is getting safer thanks to the work of Hyun Lillehoj. She’s senior research molecular biologist at the Agricultural Research…

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