- Mike Johanns
Mike Johanns was sworn in as the 28th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 21, 2005. Secretary Johanns' strong agricultural roots stretch back to his childhood. He was born in Iowa and grew up doing chores on his family's dairy farm. As the son of a dairy farmer, he developed a deep respect for the land and the people who work it. He still describes himself as "a farmer's son with an intense passion for agriculture."
- Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
- Kika de la Garza
Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II was a United States congressman representing the 15th district in Texas from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1997. De La Garza was known as a liberal Democrat of Hispanic descent. De La Garza grew up in Edinburg, Texas. At age 17, he entered the United States Navy, serving for two years. de la Garza chose to continue his education at Edinburg Junior College and the U.S. Army Artillery School at Fort Still in Oklahoma.
- Walter Willett
Walter Willett , M.D. Author, "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" Chairman, Department of Nutrition
- Bobby R. Acord
Bobby R. Acord was the Administrator of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). He was appointed by Ann Veneman on November 7, 2001, and was no longer administrator as of 2004.
- A. S. Hitchcock
Albert Spear Hitchcock (September 4, 1865 - December 16, 1935) was an important American botanist and agrostologist. Specializing in grasses, he was the chief botanist for the USDA from 1928 until his death. He authored over 250 works during his lifetime.
- United Streets Dopeboyz Of America
The United Streets Dopeboyz of America also known as USDA, is a hip hop trio from Atlanta. The group's founder, Atlanta-based rapper Young Jeezy, officially brought the group mainstream after his departure from Boyz N Da Hood.
- George Demas
George Demas (28 April 1958 - 23 December 1999) was a pedologist whose pioneering studies of subaqueous soil contributed to the understanding of soil formation and the expansion of the concept of soil. USDA soil taxonomy was revised as a result. Born in the USA, he earned a B.S. in Soil Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 followed by an M.S. in soil genesis in 1982. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1998.
- Wade Hurt
G. Wade Hurt is a national authority on hydric soils and was previously state soil scientist of Florida. Currently working for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the USDA, he is housed in the Soil and Water Science Department of the University of Florida in Gainesville.
- Forrest Mims
Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist and magazine columnist and the author of the popular "Engineer's Mini-Notebook"-series of instructional books originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 (major in government with minors in English and history) then became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. Mims has no formal academic training in science but has a career as a science author, …
- Nathan Cobb
Nathan Augustus Cobb (30 June, 1859 - 4 June 1932) born in Spencer, Massachusetts is known as "the father of nematology in the United States". He provided the foundations for nematode taxonomy and described over 1000 different nematode species. An individual with a variety of skills, he made signficiant contributions to a number of scientific dicsciplines and the USDA Nematology Lab, originally established with him as the director, continues today.
- Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. He became an official with the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture from 1963 to 1968.
- Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 - November 16, 2000) was an United States civil rights leader, ordained reverend, and later a politician. His famous motto was "Unbought and Unbossed".
- Ross H. Arnett Jr.
Ross Harold Arnett, Jr. (April 13, 1919 - July 16, 1999) was an American entomologist noted for his studies of beetles, and as founder of the "Coleopterist's Bulletin". Born in Medina, New York, he was a star student at Cornell University, where he became interested in beetles and started on a revision of the Nearctic Silphidae. He graduated in 1942, the same year that he married his high school sweetheart Mary Ennis.
- John Taylor Bowles
John Taylor Bowles (born 1957), of Maryland, is the 2008 Presidential candidate of the National Socialist Movement. The National Socialist Movement is the grassroots organization of America's National Socialist Party. The National Socialist Movement & Candidate Bowles campaign is based on on the 25 Points of National Socialism. John Taylor Bowles is a former federal officer of the USDA. He was educated at the Delaware Technical & Community College, …
- Bernard Fernow
Bernard Eduard Fernow (1851 - 1923) was the chief forester of the USDA in the late 1800s. He believed that forests were part of the "great economy of nature". Preceded Gifford Pinchot as the head of the Division of Forestry (predecessor to the United States Forest Service), where Fernow's chief policy goals were the establishment of a national forest system and introduction of scientific forest management.
- Hazel Stiebeling
Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896-1989) was an American nutritionist who pioneered the development of USDA programs for nutrition including USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals.
- Charles E. Woodworth
Major Charles E. Woodworth, Ph.D., (1897-1966), served as a Major in the United States Army during WWII and as an Entomologist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
- Paul Fryxell
Paul A. Fryxell (born 2 February 1927, Moline, Illinois) is an American botanist. He attended Moline public schools and later Augustana College, graduating with a B.A. in 1949, and Iowa State University (M.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1955). After employment with the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station (1952-1955) and the Wichita State University (Asst. Professor of Botany, 1955-1957), he joined the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, …
- Nathan Banks
Nathan Banks (1868 - 1953) was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina (mites). He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA. In 1915 he authored the first comprehensive English handbook on mites: "A Treatise on the Acarina, Or Mites" (Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings Of The United States National Museum, 1905, 114 pages).
- Anne Mulkern
Anne C. Mulkern covers national news in "The Denver Post"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Washington D.C. bureau and investigates corporate America's influence on lawmakers and regulators. Mulkern's stories have exposed how the FCC and SEC accepted hundreds of trips funded by regulated businesses. She also investigated the USDA's ties to the meat industry. She previously worked for the "Orange County Register".
- Slick Pulla
Renaldo Whitman, currently known as Slick Pulla, is an American rap artist signed to Young Jeezy's record label CTE. Along with Young Jeezy and Blood Raw, Slick Pulla is one-third of rap-trio U.S.D.A. He is heavily looked upon as Jeezy's protegé because of his similar rapping style. His laid back style and melodic flow is what a hip hop fan might expect from a west coast rapper, but his southern drawl is sure to bring them back to the streets of the South.
- Philip Hunter Timberlake
Philip Hunter Timberlake (1883-1981) was one of the most prolific American entomologists of the 20th century. He was born on June 5, 1883 in Bethel, Maine, and died in 1981 in Riverside, California, where he had served as an Associate Entomologist in the Department of Entomology of the University of California, Riverside. He obtained an A.B. degree in 1908 in Liberal Arts from Bowdoin College with a major in Greek and Latin.
- Johanns Said Usda
Johanns said USDA has organized the public comments into 41 summary papers. Each paper includes three sections: factual background data about the topic, a summary of general opinions expressed, and a list of specific suggestions that were conveyed. He noted in a press briefing that papers are strictly summaries of the opinions and suggestions of those who submitted public comment.
- Thom Haller
Thom Haller teaches principles and strategies for helping people find the information they need, use it, and appreciate the experience. He works as a consultant and coach, helping organizations infuse user-centered performance structure into electronic and print products. Thom has been teaching information architecture since 1998 and also provides instruction in professional writing, web writing, information design, creative nonfiction writing, and other understanding-focused courses.
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- Gary C. Messplay
- Charles Herty
Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, Sr. (December 4, 1867 - July 27, 1938) was an American academic, scientist and businessman. Serving in academia as a chemistry professor to begin his career, Herty concurrently promoted collegiate athletics including creating the first varsity football team at the University of Georgia. His academic research gravitated towards applied chemistry where he revolutionized the turpentine industry in the United States.
- Ed Pulaski
Ed Pulaski was a United States Forest Service ranger in Wallace, Idaho. In August 1910 he was credited with saving his crew of 45 men when a fire they were attempting to fight broke out of control. Drawing on his knowledge of the area and of the dynamics of forest fires, Pulaski led his crew to safety in an abandoned mine. Pulaski is reported to have stood by the front entrance of the mine throughout the night with a pistol, …
- Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Bryce Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935).
- Kenneth Dupee Swan
Kenneth Dupee Swan (1887 - 1970), more commonly known as K.D. Swan, was an American nature photographer in the early part of the 20th century. During his career in the USDA Forest Service (1911 - 1947) he took many picture of the American Northwest. Swan captured the face of public lands, revealing its wildness and value to the American public.
- Franklin B. Hough
Franklin B. Hough (1822-1885) was a scientist, historian and the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, the predecessor of the United States Forestry Service. He was among the first to call attention to the depletion of forests in the U.S. and is sometimes called the "father of American forestry".
- Henry S. Graves
Henry ("Harry") Solon Graves was a forest administrator in the United States. He founded the Yale School of Forestry (now the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) in 1900, the first school dedicated to forestry in the United States. He served as the second Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1910 to 1920.
- Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin is a product of small town Iowa who has not forgotten his origins. He was born November 19, 1939 to a coal miner father and a Slovenian immigrant mother who passed away when Tom was ten years old.
- Desiree Horton
Desiree Horton (nickname: Chopper Chick) was with KTLA 5 in Los Angeles from April 2005 to October 2005, flying their helicopter and reporting traffic and breaking news for the "Morning News". From 2001 to 2005, she flew and reported for KABC 7 (also in L.A.). The Telecopter was invented by KTLA in 1958. Still, except for brief stints by Julie Horvath and Kris Kelley, …
- Hugh Joseph
Hugh Joseph Hugh Joseph is the NESFP Project Developer, and past Project Director for NESFP. In his role as Project Director, Dr. Joseph coordinated all NESFP activities and resource development since he founded the project in 1998. In his current role as Project Developer, Dr. Joseph assesses and initiates NESFP fundraising initiatives. He brings 30 years of experience in developing food, agriculture, and nutrition programs, primarily serving low-income constituencies.
- Eric M. Bost
Eric M. Bost was confirmed by the U. S. Senate in May and was sworn in as the under secretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services on June 18, 2001. Before being appointed to USDA, Eric Bost served as chief executive and administrative officer of the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) since August 1997. As DHS commissioner, Bost headed one of the largest human services agencies in the country, with more than 15,000 employees and an annual budget of $3.5 billion.
- Paul
Let's see...about me...I'm a real go-getter, a musical virtuoso, self made millionaire, my figure chiseled from stone, thrice a Rhoads Scholar, Nobel Laureate, amateur neurosurgeon, former gang member turned evangelical preacher, witchdoctor, lumberjack, rodeo clown, and pathological liar.
- Theresa A. Nicklas
Theresa A. Nicklas , DrPH, is Professor of Pediatrics at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Prior to moving to Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Nicklas was Chair and Professor of the Department of Food and Nutrition at North Dakota State University for 2 ½ years.