The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines standard serving sizes for dietary guidance.
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This year ethanol production will consume a whopping 42 % of the corn crop, says the US Department of Agriculture.
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On Friday, the price of benchmark Chicago corn reached an all-time high after the US Department of Agriculture cut its production estimate by 17%.
Indeed, researchers at Iowa State University and the US Department of Agriculture found that in Bt-corn the level of fumonisin is reduced by as much as 80% compared to conventional corn.
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) believes it is more likely that companies will produce clones with "desirable" traits, breed them, and bring products from the offspring into the food chain.
Matt Buffington, a research entomologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), says the stink bugs arrived in the US sometime between the late 1990s and 2003 to find an "enemy-free space".
For instance, two recent studies by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture found that most soda tax proposals significantly overstate the amount of weight loss they would generate.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced that US sugar supplies could run short this year as farmers could lose 21% of the 2011 crop if they are not able to start sowing in the spring.
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Last week, the US department of agriculture released the most comprehensive analysis of data on GM crops in the US. As expected, these show a dramatic uptake among farmers - a six-fold increase to 50 million acres in just two years.
On Oct. 8, when the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for the US corn crop, shares of Tyson, the chicken producer, dropped 6%.
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