ALT The new ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, AZ. (Photo by Melvin Abreu, ARS).
ALT Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, spoke at the opening of the new Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, AZ.
ALT The plastic imaging, detection, and ejection system (PIDES) installed on a cotton gin stand. (Photo by John Wanjura).
ALT A cotton gin stand with a visual inspection single-node (VISN) camera. (Photo by John Wanjura).
ALT Scenes from the opening of the new USDA-ARS Plant Bioscience Research Building in Pullman, WA. (Photo by Melvin Abreu).
ALT Scenes from the opening of the new USDA-ARS Plant Bioscience Research Building in Pullman, WA. (Photo by Melvin Abreu).
ALT Scenes from the opening of the new USDA-ARS Plant Bioscience Research Building in Pullman, WA. (Photo by Melvin Abreu).
ALT Scenes from the opening of the new USDA-ARS Plant Bioscience Research Building in Pullman, WA. (Photo courtesy of Washington State University).
ALT Soybeans growing in the field. (Photo by Kristin Bilyeu, ARS)
ALT Dr. Katrina Cornish.
ALT Students, staff, and faculty from the University of California, Merced, help with vacuum harvesting ripe guayule seeds from ALARC fields. (Photo by Katrina Cornish, ARS).
ALT Research Soil Scientist Kristen Veum holds soil above the SHAPE tool.
ALT An aerial drone view shows experimental drainage plots in Ames, IA, where USDA ARS conducts long term research on balancing water quality and food production. Image “b” provides a closer view of the plot sumps, where tile drainage is measured and tested for a wide range of water quality parameters. (ARS image).
ALT AI imaging above, versus real photos of the alfalfa roots. (Image provided by Dr. Debby Samac).
ALT From left (back row): Robert D’Adamo, Jyoti Jennewein, Jeff Silverstein, Mike Arnold, Joon Park, Pete Kleinman, Cathy Stewart, Brad Floyd, Justin Derner, John Frame. Front row: Huihui Zhang, Grace Miner, Mari Gomez, Kyle Mankin, and Kevin Yemoto. (Photo by Donna Neer, ARS).
ALT From left: Jeff Silverstein and Harvey Blackburn, look over Cyrotanks, filled with liquid nitrogen. The Cryotanks store animal and plant germplasm in the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation at Fort Collins. These provide central long-term primary storage to safeguard the genetic diversity of animals and plants critical to U.S. agriculture and global food security. (Photo by Donna Neer, ARS).
ALT Precision livestock technologies are being employed by ranchers, like the multi-generation King Ranch in Cheyenne, WY. Precision field equipment can capture individual animal gas fluxes under real-world grazing conditions. This provides ranchers with enhanced decision-making in selecting animals for nutrient use and feed efficiency, in rangeland environments. ARS Administrator Joon Park (right) joins Savannah Solon, agricultural sciences research technician, as they fill a hopper with livestock feed. (Photo by Justin Derner, ARS).
ALT Cattle grazing on the rangeland in the 1950s.
ALT Current drought on the Western Great Plains.
ALT A healthy rangeland. (Getty Images).
ALT Soybean crops. (Photo by Kristin Bilyeu, ARS).
