Science In Your Shopping Cart
Learn how science impacts your everyday life and how the USDA Agricultural Research Service is working to develop ways to enhance our lives and protect our planet.
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When you grow anything indoors, you can control a lot of the conditions, including temperature, irrigation, insect and disease resistance, and water quality and consumption. ARS researchers are using indoor recirculating systems to improve the health and yields of rainbow trout while maintaining great taste and market size.
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Fish farmers are using natural contained aquifers to grow fish to market size at an incredible fast rate. That’s because aquifers can provide optimal conditions for fish rearing. Unfortunately, you can’t scale-up aquifers. ARS researchers are working with fish farmers to develop and implement best management practices to increase fish yields, health, and size of fish reared in aquifers.
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Aquaculture, commonly known as fish farming, is a global multi-billion dollar industry, and is one of the fastest growing forms of food production. Unfortunately, most fish farming occurs overseas. ARS is helping the U.S. aquaculture industry provide more locally sourced seafood, including oysters, trout, salmon, catfish, and new varieties. In fact, you may soon be able to purchase seafood that was farm raised in your own...
In this episode of Science In Your Shopping Cart we take a tour of some super human plants that we use in our everyday lives to help feed and protect us.
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Learn about this amazing wonderplant and some of the ways we use this plant in our everyday lives.
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ARS scientists are coming up with new ways to produce clean energy by developing a large filter-type application out of discarded almond shells that could capture and then store hydrogen, as well as other components for energy purposes.
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Did you know that some wonderplants can be used to control and even kill annoying flies and mosquitoes?
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ARS scientists are turning nano fibers from cotton plants into mask filters, wound dressings, and other medical applications.
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Learn about the amazing Guayule plant and how this desert loving plant is used in making tires, including a 100% Guayule tire!
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ARS scientists are turning plant fibers in to single-use containers to one day replace non-biodegradable plastic containers.
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Check out some amazing wonderplants at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, DC.
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In this episode of Science In Your Shopping Cart we pull back the curtains to reveal how ARS scientists create new berry cultivars and work with the food industry to help farmers keep up with growing consumer demands for fresh fruit.
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Check out our newest strawberry, and hear how new strawberry cultivars are created.
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Tips on how to grow your own blueberry and blackberry plants right in your own backyard.
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ARS scientists created a thornless blackberry plant along with many new varieties of blackberries for the agricultural industry and a trellis system designed to protect and help pickers harvest blackberries. ARS scientists are also working with the individually quick frozen industry to pack the great taste of raspberries into your cool treats.
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Learn how a USDA breeding program was responsible for the development of the blueberry growing industry in the southeastern United States and how ARS scientists have developed and are continuing to work with farmers to create new cultivars of blueberries that we all get to enjoy.
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Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to turn farm waste, called Biomass, into environmentally friendly products.
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Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to produce biopolymers such as nanocellulose from corn waste as a replacement for popular synthetic plastic products.
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Take a look at some cool ARS developments that are benefiting our ecosystem.
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Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to turn cotton waste into agro-based biodegradable polymers.
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