Sights and Sounds

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Sights and Sounds

Want to know how to get started with beekeeping? Wondering what Roma tomatoes and red spinach have in common? Curious about the spotted lanternfly?

Check out these videos and podcasts to learn about those things and more.

Podcasts

Roma tomatoes growing on a vine
Science in Your Shopping Cart – 1

Episode 1: What do the Roma Tomato, Huckleberry Gold Potato and Red Spinach all have in common? Find out here.

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A variety of red and green apples
Science in Your Shopping Cart – 2

Episode 2: These new inventions and advancements in the apple industry are worth sinking your teeth into.

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Science in Your Shopping Cart – 3

Episode 3: Learn about innovations and research turning farm waste, biomass, into environmentally-friendly products.

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Boxes of strawberries, blueberries and blackberries
Science in Your Shopping Cart – 4

Episode 4: Explore four types of berries and ARS's role in developing new varieties.

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Science in Your Shopping Cart – 5

Episode 5: Take a tour of some wonder plants that we use in our everyday lives.

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Five salmon swimming
Science in Your Shopping Cart – 6

Episode 6: We take a deep dive in to seafood production in the U.S.

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Science in Your Shopping Cart – 7

In this episode learn about healthy foods: new peaches, healthier margarines, tasty wraps, and a self-fertilizing almond.

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Videos

What is the Nitrogen Cycle?

What is the nitrogen cycle and why is it important to our livelihood?

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What is the Hydrologic Cycle?

Follow our water cycle as our drinking water moves from the ocean to the atmosphere to the clouds and back down to our lands.

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What Are Bioplastics?

Dive into the world of bioplastics, what they are and why they benefit the environment.

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A Honey Bee's Life

Watch this video to learn about the biggest dangers to honey bees and what’s being done to ensure they survive and thrive.

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Manteca yellow beans
Get More Iron & Flavor Out of Beans

Manteca yellow bean is a new bean variety that is more easily digested, provides greater iron, boils faster and tastes great!

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A mosquito on skin
Breaking Down Mosquito Bites

Have you ever wondered how long a mosquito needs to bite you to pass on a pathogen? Is the bug spray you're using really working?

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A tractor plowing a field.
Regenerative Farming: Intro

ARS scientists are helping producers keep their lands healthy and sustainable, while limiting their impact on our precious ecosystem.

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Mountains, fields and trees
Regenerative Farming: Agroforestry

Harvesting pine straw, and using it as mulch on farms, can minimize soil and water losses while improving crop yields and soil health.

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Video screensot of vegetation growing in depleted soil overlayed with the text "Biochar"
Regenerative Farming: Biochar

Researchers are developing methods to restore abandoned mines using soil amendments, including biochar.

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Regenerative Farming: CO2 Sequestration

ARS scientists are working to reduce emissions and promote the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by increasing carbon storage.

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Rangeland
Regenerative Farming: Rangeland Restoration

Using innovative research programs to restore our rangelands to their native, productive, and ecologically stable states.

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wildfire
Regenerative Farming: Wildfire Mitigation

ARS researchers are investigating the power of a natural, targeted grazing approach to help mitigate wildfires.

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Spotted lanternfly winged adult and 4th instar nymphs.
Beauty or a Beast?

Beautiful but deadly, these bugs are wreaking havoc on our precious crops.

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Three honey bees in a hive
Beekeeping

Learn how to get started and how to find the Queen bee in this FB Live video.

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Peanuts in the shell
Combating Peanut Allergies

Millions of people are highly allergic to nuts. Discover how ARS is developing a new oral immunotherapy drug to combat this allergy.

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Purple and yellow wildflowers.
Conservation Biological Control

ARS researchers in Salinas, California, are using natural enemies to protect fields from aphids and other destructive pests.

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African baobab tree at sunset
Conserving the Tree of Life

ARS researchers are studying the genetics of the African baobab tree hope to determine how to protect it for generations to come.

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Shredded chicken feathers, powdered chicken feathers, chicken feathers converted to pellets and a biodegradable pot made from the feathers with an injection molder.
Flower Pots From Feathers?

An ARS researcher has figured out how to turn feathers into pellets which in turn can be made into things like flower pots.

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Sheep grazing near a wooded area.
Integrated Cropping & Livestock

Scientists are adding livestock to crop fields to improve farm production and sustainability, while reducing environmental impact.

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A reusable shopping bag filled with apples, peppers, a loaf of bread, a head of broccoli, an onion and grapes
Maintaining a Healthy Diet

Tune into our Facebook event to learn tips on eating healthy.

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A plot of soybeans treated with elevated carbon dioxide at the SoyFACE Global Change Research Facility
Protecting the Environment

Learn how ARS scientists are keeping carbon in the ground.

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A bottle of a chocolate flavored Glucerna shake which contains sucromalt as an ingredient
Sweetener For Diabetics

ARS researchers developed a low-glycemic sweetener, a benefit for diabetics and crop farmers.

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Farm equipment moving along a tree line.
What is Agroforestry?

Learn how Agroforestry helped save the farming industry in the 1930s, and how it helps farmers protect the environment.

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