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2022 USDA Science Highlights

January 2023: This report summarizes USDA’s progress toward its science goals in 2022 as it strives to make research programs more equitable, tackle food and nutrition security, develop climate-smart solutions, and build more and better markets.

USDA’s Science Mission 2022: Innovative Breakthroughs, Research Revelations, and Data Discoveries

A $9.5 million investment in sustainable bioproduct manufacturing, new ways to track COVID in animals, and a unique mobile system for assessing and mapping out soil carbon in real time are just some of the many science and innovation achievements made.

American Lobster Harvesting & Sustainability

Hear directly from noted seafood chef and author Barton Seaver about the sustainability of the American lobster industry.

Sustainable Bioproduct Manufacturing Gets a $9.5 Million Boost from USDA

Three projects will receive funding through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Bioproduct Pilot Program, which supports the development of value-added products from agricultural commodities

Almond Industry Celebrates Second-Largest Crop and Shipping Year, Moves Closer to 2025 Sustainability Goals

Despite external pressures, from weather events to the Russia-Ukraine war, the almond industry recorded its second-largest crop and second largest shipments ever in crop year 2021/ 22.

Data Driven. Traceable by Design. A Smarter Cotton Future.

10 November 2022: Through data and case studies, the report covers the sustainability improvements recorded by grower members across six key metrics, the evolution of the Protocol’s membership across the value chain, and proof of its growing acceptance as an international standard in sustainable cotton.

Field to Market Climate Compendium, third edition

20 September 2022: The latest Climate Compendium shows that organizations across the agriculture value chain are focusing greater attention on the climate crisis. The report finds that two-thirds of Field to Market members (73%) have made public commitments on climate change, up from 68% in 2021.

The Search is On for the Next “Slow Fashion” Leather Designer

The Real Leather. Stay Different international student design competition is back for a second year. Its mission is to find the world’s emerging design talent and promote slow, sustainable style over fast, throw-away fashion.

Kent Swisher Named President and CEO of the North American Renderers Association

He will also serve as President of the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation (FPRF), the rendering industry’s research organization, and take on the role of secretariat of the WRO (the organization representing the rendering industry worldwide).

Insight & Opinion: Water in Leather Production: The Incredible Shrinking Act

Thanks to new processes and technologies, the leather production industry has cut its water footprint by 37% in the past 25 years and it’s improving all the time.

Young Designers Express their Pandemic Experience in American Hardwood

This month (September), visitors to the London Design Museum will be able to see the results of American Hardwood Export Council’s collaboration with leading design magazine Wallpaper.

Cattle Rendering is an Unsung Sustainability Success Story

Without the rendering industry, U.S. landfills would be at capacity in just four years. That’s according to Kent Swisher, the president and CEO of the North American Renderers Association.

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