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unusual facts about U.S. Department of Agriculture



Don Crabtree

Crabtree was employed from 1952 until 1962 as a county supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) in Twin Falls.

Kevin's Law

Kevin's Law (as referred to in Representative Anna Eshoo's introduction of the law in 2005 and in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc.; formally known as the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act of 2003) was proposed legislation that would have given the U.S. Department of Agriculture the power to close down plants that produce contaminated meat.

Lupe Valdez

She then moved on to investigative roles as an agent of the General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and, finally, the U.S. Customs Service where she was a leader in the federal Counter Smuggling Initiative.

Luther C. Tibbets

In 1873 Eliza Tibbets received two new citrus trees to grow and test, from the botanist William Saunders, the Director of the new U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C..

Marketing Nutrition

Marketing Nutrition is a book that examines the intersection of consumer psychology, nutrition, and business and which is written by Cornell professor and current Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Brian Wansink.

Monocacy River

Some farmers in the Monocacy watershed participate in the national Conservation Security Program operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), designed to help stem pollution due to erosion and pollutant runoff from farming.

Phenol coefficient

For example, the Rideal–Walker method gives a Rideal–Walker coefficient and the U.S. Department of Agriculture method gives a U.S. Department of Agriculture coefficient.

Sodium polyacrylate

The origins of super absorbent polymer chemistry trace back to the early 1960s when the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed the first super absorbent polymer materials.

Soil test

: National Soil Survey Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2012.

Standards of identity for food

They are issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition

The subcommittee is responsible for oversight, review, analysis, and special investigations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture along with nutrition and consumer programs such as the federal food stamp program, which provides assistance to needy families and the Food Pyramid.

William Jasper Spillman

In 1902 he accepted a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture following the reception of his paper on his wheat-breeding experiments presented at the meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in Washington, D.C. in November, 1901.


see also

History of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System

At the time, Knapp was overseeing Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work nationally through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry.