The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of Wisconsin–Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a world-class dairy research facility that will expand the two organizations’ long-standing partnership to tackle key issues affecting dairy farms across the country. Read more here.

An ARS scientist at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, IL, has been able to transform lactose from dairy waste into polyurethane and other bioplastic polymers with wide-ranging potential applications in industry and consumer products. Read more here.

Researchers at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, IL, and at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, IA, are working to use chemically modified tunicamycin, called TunR2, to battle Johne's Disease. Read more here. 

Two scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have been named 2023 Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) including Dr. Martin Williams, an ARS research ecologist, Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit in Urbana, Illinois. Read more here.

For pioneering studies on Influenza A Viruses in swine, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist Amy L. Baker is the agency's Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year for 2024. Read more here.

Dr. Carl Bolster, Bowling Green, KY, served as a Chapter Lead for the Agriculture, Food Systems and Rural Communities chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Read more about the National Assessment on Climate Change and Agriculture here. 

ARS Researchers in West Lafayette, IN, are examining how cattle, swine, and poultry are raised in an effort to improve their quality of life, focusing on three priority areas under modern farming conditions: pain or distress, animal health and productivity, and harmful effects caused by climate variability. Read more here.

Growing more crops does not necessarily lead to greater profit, according to farmers and the researchers who help them. To make production more profitable, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers in Peoria, IL, are working to identify new business opportunities by creating new products from existing crops. Read more here.