Skip to main content
Skip to main content

USDA Blog

Filters

Category/Topic

Authored Date

Showing: 1 - 4 of 4 Results
Applied Filters

USDA’s Science & Research Strategy Aims to Boldly Transform U.S. Agriculture

May 15, 2023 Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics & USDA Chief Scientist

We are at a pivotal moment for USDA and U.S. agriculture.

Research and Science

The Path to Prosperity Event in Georgia Gives Boosts to Small Businesses in the Southeastern U.S.

May 15, 2023 staff of USDA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

It was a great start to National Small Business Month at the Southeast States “Path to Prosperity" event in Albany, Georgia on May 2. Path to Prosperity is a regional business and economic development workshop series that features experts from the financial industry, federal government, community...

Equity Farming Initiatives

Communities Connect with Nature on Alaska's Tongass National Forest

December 08, 2014 Teresa Haugh, Alaska Region, U.S. Forest Service

Scott Harris, the conservation science director for the Sitka Conservation Society, is on a mission. He’s dedicated to connecting the communities of Southeast Alaska to the stunning, natural world that surrounds them including the Tongass National Forest. Sitka Conservation Society’s charge is to...

Forestry

The Pham Family Farm, Immigrants Making a Good Life in Mississippi

December 08, 2014 Judi Craddock, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Mississippi

Just outside Hazlehurst, Mississippi, a community of 4,000 about 30 miles south of Jackson, lies a poultry farm owned by a Vietnamese farm family whose lives are an amazing story of survival and determination. Hung and Nancy Pham are refugees who fled the former South Vietnam as teenagers in a...

Conservation