Accurate assessment of the quality of agricultural products is essential in today’s rapidly globalizing economy. […]

U.S. agricultural producers and food processors will need to focus on adding value to agricultural […]

Comprehensive report on wastes from crop production, poultry farms, swine production, cattle feedlots, dairy farms, food processing, and seafood production and processing. Chairs: Larry L. Boersma, Department of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, and Ishwar P. Murarka, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.

This CAST Report summarizes Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) policy literature and a survey of key […]

Summary of a January 1995 conference sponsored by CAST. Topics include legislative, environmental, conservation, rural […]

Understanding public perceptions, risk perception, and the public, risk acceptability and pesticides, and consumer perceptions […]

Agricultural, corporate, scientific, political, environmental, and social communities are asking the agricultural research system to identify and pursue a broadened range of research priorities.

Better data on microbial risks are needed to make the U.S. food supply safer. Cochairs: Peggy M. Foegeding, Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and Tanya Roberts, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Review of scientific evidence in response to proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy for labeling of foods from new plant varieties.

Scientists found no evidence that supplemental selenium use for farm animals and poultry, including feedlot concentrations, was involved in any environmental problems.