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USDA Offers Summer Food Safety Tips In Advance of Memorial Day...

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WASHINGTON, May 20, 2015 – Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer, and many Americans will celebrate with cookouts, camping, road trips and other activities that involve food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is reminding families to take extra care not to let foodborne bacteria, whi...

USDA Grants Support Research, Education and Extension Activities at Tribal Land-Grant...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced nearly $17 million in grants to tribal colleges and universities to support research, education and extension activities to support schools in American Indian communities focused on bolstering their students’ lear...

Stocker calves may be option for wheat pasture producers

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STILLWATER, Okla. – Producers who are able to graze out cattle on their wheat pasture as part of a dual-purpose management system need to take stock of both livestock markets and the local effects of recent and projected weather patterns....

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Highlights Economic Opportunity and Job Creation of...

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ELKWOOD, Va., May 30, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted the economic opportunity provided by strong local and regional food systems for America’s farmers and ranchers while touring Blue Ridge Produce, a regional food hub that aggregates, markets and distributes locally grown fruits and vegetables for sale to wholesale c...

Matters of fat

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Media contact:
Milly Carter
Administrative Associate, West Central Region
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 816-252-7717
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: Glenda Kinder, 816-407-3490

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – Simply cutting back on the fat in your diet is not the key to a slimmer waistline and better heart health, notes a University of...

Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Retirement of Agricultural Research...

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WASHINGTON, August 30, 2013— United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement on the retirement of Agricultural Research Service Administrator Edward B. Knipling:...

MU helps create virtual entomology museum

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Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]

COLUMBIA, Mo. – No matter where you are, someday you may be able to study more than 7 million insect specimens from the Enns Entomology Museum at the University of Missouri through an online virtual museum.

MU and 13 other Midwestern...

Farmers need to watch markets carefully in 2015

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Media contact:
Jason Vance
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9731
E-Mail: [email protected]

Story source: David Reinbott, 573-545-3516

COLUMBIA, Mo.– Prices for all commodities are lower than they have been the last few years, and that will put some economic stress on many farmers.

“I think farmers need to have a good...

OSU graduate student receives fellowship for supercomputer research

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Brian Couger, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University, is the recipient of a prestigious research fellowship that he earned with the help of the campus supercomputer. 

Couger, from Fredrick, Okla., has been awarded one of only four Champion Fellows designations from XSEDE (pronounced exceed), which will allow him to collaborate with...

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