During his 24 years with the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, 16 of them as the State entomologist, William J. Brandvik has had a constant goal: pest control.
On an April day in the Imperial Valley of California, a farm laborer slices through stalks of broccoli and quickly places them in a well-lined box that will take them to supermarkets all over the country.
The coastal and mountainous areas of northwest Washington State enjoy a rich blend of human settlements: cities, commercial agricultural enterprises, and thousands of small part-time farms.
There have been a lot of firsts in Mattie Sharpless' career in USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)—for instance, first and only woman or minority to serve in the senior foreign service and first woman or minority to serve as an FAS assistant administrator.
Each year, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) assures the U.S. public of the wholesomeness of meat and poultry from about 120 million livestock and 5.9 billion chickens and other poultry, as well as 150 million pounds of beef stew, chicken pot pie, and other processed products.
At the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), administrators and faculty search for ways to apply basic research for the good of the local community and rural economy, both through the classroom and through the county Extension Service.
"I could be viewed as an idealist," says Jeffrey Berry, "But because of 4-H, I know that people can learn to live together. I have seen ideals working, and I know they can work!"
Once, young people from America's farms would go to school to get their book learning and then be out in the field to sow oats, cut hay, do thrashing, or pitch hay from spring until fall.
Every year the playgrounds of San Francisco's inner-city schools resound with laughter and learning as students meet farmers and farm animals in California's Farm Day in the City.
This is the story of one public veterinarian who chose to pursue an elusive goal for over a quarter of a century: the eradication of brucellosis, a nationwide livestock disease.
Bessie Beuchert had not planned on a nursery or garden center career, but she discovered by accident that working with plants and people is a rewarding way to make the most of her natural talents.
In rural North Dakota, on a family farm with 2,200 acres and 10 cows, Leonard Harris is trying to spread a new technology that can help other farmers help themselves.
Positive about the present, enthusiastic about the future, Edward I. McGrew personifies what it takes today to successfully farm the irrigated desert lands that provide this Nation with most of its fresh, cool-season vegetables each winter.
Most people in Grady, a small community in southeastern Arkansas with a population of about 400, boast often about a unique farm family in their midst.
Not many individuals who leave school and marry at age 14 have the chance to lunch with presidents, serve in a State legislature, or earn a college degree when a grandmother.
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