Tag: USDA
Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day – an occasion that traditionally combines romance with...
Farm families are struggling to grow their businesses in child care...
Shoshanah Inwood, The Ohio State University and Florence Becot, The Ohio State University
Kerissa and Charlie Payne are...
Bird flu has made a comeback, driving up prices for holiday turkeys
Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread through chicken and turkey flocks...
SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes...
Vitamin K: A little-known but noteworthy nutrient
Kyla Shea, Tufts University
When Danish scientist Henrik Dam fed a cholesterol-free diet to baby chicks in his lab about 90 years ago, he noticed...
‘Organic’ label doesn’t guarantee that holiday ham was a happy pig
Michael Haedicke, Drake University
This holiday season, Americans will buy some 20 million turkeys and 300 million pounds of ham.
Some of these turkeys and hams...
The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, North Carolina State University
The Trump administration wants to tighten even further longstanding restrictions on who is eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
