When I request a memory from 2012 to dairy farmers, almost unanimously they respond “drought stress.” According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA, 2013), the spring and summer drought of 2012 will be remembered as one of the “worst agricultural calamities” in the United States (USDA, 2013). The drought of 2012 reduced the national corn grain and silage yields by 16.2 and 16.3%, respecti...

The following information is missing from the Competing Interests section: "The views expressed are those of Dr. Hamrick’s, and should not be attributed to the Economic Research Service or USDA. "The correct competing interest information is as follows. Dr. Hamrick, one of the co-authors, is employed by the USDA Economic Research Service. The views expressed are those of Dr. Hamrick’s, and shou...

T. D. Perkins is Director of Research, and G. T. Adams and S. T. Lawson are Research Ass istants, Proctor Maple Research Center, T he University of Vermont;· P. 0. Box 233, Harvey Road, Underhill Center, VT 05490 USA. P. G. Schaberg is Research Plant Physiologist, Northeastern Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT 05402 USA. S. G. McNulty is Program Manager, Southern Global Ch...

Nadav Nitzan, Vegetable Forage Crops and Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA 99350; Marc A. Evans, Department of Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman 99164; Tom F. Cummings and Dennis A. Johnson, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164; Dallas L. Batchelor, Lamb-Weston, Pasco, WA 99301; Chris Olsen, L.J. Olsen, Inc., Othello, WA 99344; Kathleen G. ...

J. L. Smilanick, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2021 South Peach Avenue, Fresno, CA 93727; I. F. Michael and M. F. Mansour, Advanced Packinghouse Systems, LLC, 1927 Cherry Avenue, Fresno, CA 93791; B. E. Mackey, Biometrics Unit, USDA-ARS, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710; D. A. Margosan, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2021 South Peach Avenue, Fresno,...

Morphological and Cytomolecular Assessment of Intraspecific Variability in Scarlet Eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.) Hamidou F. Sakhanokho, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, Eugene K. Blythe, Barbara J. Smith, Kanniah Rajasekaran & M. A. Majid a USDA-ARS, Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory, Poplarville, Mississippi, USA b USDA-Forest Service, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Forest Tree ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP) was initiated to update existing component values and to add data on new foods and components to reflect today’s marketplace and needs for data. The USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference contains data for about 6040 foods for over 100 compounds. To develop a full nutrient profile for...

A. D. Wilson The USDA Forest Service has been involved in Texas oak wilt research since 1976. Despite research successes, there are still many important research areas that have not been addressed or sufficiently investigated to answer the key questions required for making sound disease management decisions. Some of the priority areas planned for future research by the Southern Hardwoods Labora...

This article provides a brief historical background of the events and circumstances that led to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act (AWA) amendments. It describes the development of the regulations promulgated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1991 as a result of these amendments, the reasoning given for the proposals, and the revisions that were made during the process. Information is incl...