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Chalk up another potential health benefit for inulin, a plant compound used in many foods that's already been credited with boosting gut and colonic health and helping the body absorb [...]

Geneticist Timothy Porch is out to beat the heat. Working from ARS's Tropical Agriculture Research Station at Mayagtiez, Puerto Rico, Porch is trying to reduce the impact of heat stress [...]

It's bright orange, nematode resistant, and hot. Make that very hot! It's TigerPaw-NR, a new, groundbreaking habanero pepper developed and released recently by scientists at ARS's U.S. Vegetable Laboratory in [...]

In 2004, ARS soil scientists in South Carolina and colleagues introduced an innovative hog-waste management system that may greatly benefit swine producers and the environment alike. Now these researchers have [...]

Internet access to data representing the vital signs of key watersheds could be among the eventual benefits from an ARS program that's now being expanded. A Web-based data system developed [...]

Researchers at ARS's National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa, have been taking aim at bison and shooting at them from distances of up to 90 feet--all in efforts [...]

People in the eastern United States may believe that not much good can come from cicadas. That's because it was less than 2 years ago that they experienced Brood X [...]

Regional wisdom once imparted by a Mississippi grandfather has led ARS scientists to isolate a natural compound that in laboratory tests was effective in warding off mosquito bites. The efficacy [...]

Efforts to keep the barber pole worm, Haemonchus contortus, from infecting goats and sheep have taken a harrowing turn of late. The blood-sucking parasites, which thrive in heat and humidity [...]

Finding the source of brucellosis outbreaks has been made easier by a new DNA fingerprinting method developed in Ames, Iowa, by microbiologists with ARS and USDA's Animal and Plant Health [...]

Microbiologist Julia Ridpath of ARS's National Animal Disease Center says that, as they exist today, vaccine and voluntary control programs aimed at eradicating bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in the [...]

There's bad news for many insects that pester North American greenhouses. Scientists from Cornell University and ARS have reported the first-ever identification on the continent of the Old World hunter [...]

The emerald ash borer, a major threat to ash trees, may have met the enemy. And it's now up to researchers, including those at ARS's Sytematic Entomology Laboratory (SELL to [...]

Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass. That's the thought behind the research of ARS computational [...]

A high-tech look into how nitrogen interacts with organic matter and decomposing crop residues in submerged soils may have confirmed the cause of a potentially serious problem facing Asia's rice [...]

ARS studies have found that residue from water-treatment processes--often discarded as waste into landfills--may make good soil treatments for preventing phosphorus loss in runoff from agricultural lands. At ARS's Coastal [...]

Supplementing the diets of live turkeys with vitamin E may reduce the already small chance of transmission of a serious foodborne illness. That's the finding of an ARS study conducted [...]

Listening to a flowing creek may be just the thing for relaxing on a peaceful afternoon. But ARS hydraulic engineer Roger Kuhnle listens for a different reason. He's seeking clues [...]

For a quarter century, scientists at ARS' Wheat, Peanut, and Other Field Crops Research Unit in Stillwater, Oklahoma, have worked to improve disease resistance and oil quality in peanuts. The [...]

Blue-green algae give catfish farmers the blues. Certain types of blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, produce off-flavor compounds that can give catfish a muddy or earthy taste, which keeps them from [...]

A high-tech piece of equipment, hard work, and collaboration have brought researchers a few steps closer to developing new tests and vaccines for several troublesome cattle diseases. Scientists at ARS' [...]

Score another one for soy. ARS-assisted research suggests that ferritin in soybeans is a highly usable source of iron for women who are marginally iron deficient. The finding, reported in [...]

ARS research into how and when plants use the phosphorus in manure may aid farmers as they try to stem nutrient runoff into waterways. 'A future challenge,' says soil scientist [...]