MARS

But we’ve heard a lot over the last couple of months about a mission to Mars; putting humans on the Red Planet. But for that to happen, the astronauts would need to grow food. So, what happens if an insect hitchhikes and starts destroying the crops? G ...

"When I was growing up as a kid, I used to go to an auction with my uncle to buy cows," said Joe Gaynor, with USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service  "And he always wondered why the guy at the front that sat on a cell phone is buying cows or deciding not to buy cows. He ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture Wednesday announced the launch of a new electric data platform to deliver market price information to the commodities industry. The Market Analysis and Reporting Service, nicknamed MARS, is a web-based platform that USDA says provides detailed data sets "in a more customer-focused way" to support competitive markets for farmers and to help stab