Exercise is Key to Strength and Function in Older Women

In the U.S., 70 percent of women over 65 years old are considered overweight or obese. Exercise and eating higher protein diets are known to help people lose weight and increase strength. But combining both strategies doesn’t necessarily magnify their effects.

Worker Safety and Dairy Operations

Dairy farms are getting larger with increasing herd sizes. Meanwhile, the total number of farms continues to decrease.

USDA Equal Opportunity Public Notification Policy

USDA's Equal Opportunity Public Notification Policy training

Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management

Agricultural producers in the Corn Belt are navigating increasingly complex decisions as they grow food and energy crops while facing a changing climate and greater extremes in temperature and rainfall. Routine decisions such as crop choice, fertilizer use, and irrigation scheduling have wide-ranging impacts on water availability and quality, nutrient loss, agricultural production, and ecosystem sustainability at multiple scales.

NIFA Invests Over $8.5 Million in Critical Research and Extension to Address Urgent Needs in Agriculture

NIFA’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program: Helping Consumers Maximize, and Safely Serve and Store the Food They Have

During the current pandemic, nutrition security has taken center stage. Families are struggling to put healthy food on the table. In these uncertain times, it’s important for communities to have the resources they need to help feed and nurture families.

eOrganic Established as a Community of Practice Within eXtension

Oregon State University, the University of Vermont, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota in 2007 received NIFA funding through the Organic Research and Extension Initiative to develop a new Community of Practice for eXtension.

Clemson Precision Ag Research Means Savings for South Carolina Farmers

Clemson University researchers are developing a real-time, variable-rate tillage system that uses sensor technologies to pinpoint the depth and thickness of the soil hardpan.

2021 AFRI New Investigator Webinar Series Handout

This document includes the information from the PowerPoint slides of all 8 presentations, as well as two additions that may be helpful to New Investigators, “Anatomy of an AFRI Request for Applications” and “Useful Links.”

Cactus Pear Could be the Sustainable Food and Fuel Crop of the Future

In the near future, could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop?