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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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FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, members of The Ohio National Guard assist in repackaging emergency food boxes for food distribution at the Cleveland Food Bank in Cleveland. The use of National Guard units around the country to help with the response to the coronavirus pandemic is prompting rumors of a national lockdown or even martial law. Guard units are now helping to transport medical supplies, distribute food and even help direct traffic at drive-through testing sites. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Feds dig deep, literally, to help others

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Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Agricultural Research Service admin. inducted into NAPA

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Lisa Ainsworth Agricultural Research Service National Academies of Science

ARS molecular biologist recognized for climate and crop research

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FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

VA lays out standards for veterans to see private doctors

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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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The changing face of peanut allergies

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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…