USDA Research

Profitibility or reduce variability in profitability. expand markets and uses of agricultural products. invasive species, foreign organisms, and the like. improve soil health These are Priorities for scientific research for USDA, as explained by Undersecretary for research, Education and Economics Scott Hutchins. Speaker 2: The first is to increase U.S. grower and rancher profitability and or reduce variability in profitability. Another area is to help us expand markets and uses of agricultural products and byproducts. Speaker 1: To increase both market and export opportunities. Speaker 2: A third one is the need to protect the integrity of U.S. agricultural and horticultural systems from invasive species, foreign organisms, and the like. Speaker 1: Other USDA scientific research priorities include. Speaker 2: Really to improve soil health as the basis to regenerate long term U.S. productivity, and then for us to utilize our extensive nutrition research to better understand the impact of nutrition and food on chronic diseases.