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Farmers’ Input Helps Make USDA Better

August 15, 2011 Ann Mills, Deputy Under Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment

Here at USDA, we work every day to help American farmers. It is important to us to hear how we are doing and how we can improve, and that is why I was happy to have the chance to speak with a group of local producers in Louisiana recently. These Rural Roundtable sessions are being held across the...

Food and Nutrition

Interactive Web Tool Maps Food Deserts, Provides Key Data

May 03, 2011 Ann Wright, Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: Ensuring that Americans eat well and lead healthy lives is among our greatest goals at USDA. First Lady Michelle Obama, of course, has taken an important role on this front – leading a national conversation and administration-wide effort. As part of the Lets...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

Putting Rural Development on the Map

February 18, 2011 David Nulph, Economic Research Service

Today, the Economic Research Service (ERS) posted a new and innovative interactive mapping tool that makes it easy to visualize and compare rural economic and social conditions among counties, states, and regions. By creating county-level maps of the United States, users can see how socioeconomic...

Rural Research and Science Technology
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