Items Tagged with 'National academy of sciences'

USDA and EPA have announced key leadership appointments, and the Republican Steering Committee has announced members appointed to serve on the House Agriculture Committee.

A crew from Jimmy Kimmel Live went to farmers markets in 2014 to ask regular citizens about genetic engineering. Each person was asked, “What is a GMO?”

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) needs an array of updated and alternative tools and new statistical models to achieve 21st century bean counting on American farms and ranches, says a coast-to-coast team of statistical experts, economists and others who released their findings this week in a National Academy of Sciences report.

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2017 – Federal agencies that regulate biotechnology may not have the staffing and expertise to handle the plethora of new products expected over the next five to 10 years, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.