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  • Fellowship funding available for future agriculture, nutrition professionals

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    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has nearly $19 million available in competitive grants to support fellowships and other higher education training projects in food, nutrition, natural resources and agriculture fields. These fellowships are administered through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and will support pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, undergraduate fellowships, and professional development…

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  • International collaborators attend events in USA

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    A group of International PMIL Collaborators from Africa and Haiti were joined by partners from the USA, during 2 weeks in July of 2015, to tour the USDA core germplasm collection planted at the University of Florida’s Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida USA. Most of the partners then traveled to Charleston, South Carolina…

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  • PMIL Lead Scientist Greg MacDonald in Growing Georgia: Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time

    Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time Published Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 – Growing Georgia By Allison Floyd In the late 1990s, tomato spotted wilt virus took a bite out of peanuts in the Southeast, claiming half of some farmers’ crop and about 10% of the overall yield in 1997. One of the most…

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  • July 9 & 10 International Visitors Touring USDA Peanut Germplasm Collection

    July 9-10th, 2015 University of Florida Professor Greg MacDonald is hosting over 40 visitors from different countries including: Ghana, Israel, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso, as well as representatives from the U.S. peanut research and commercial sectors; for a field tour of peanut germplasm. MacDonald has approximately 1500 different cultivars from the…

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  • Funding Opportunity: USDA/FAS Scientific Cooperation Research Program

    The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) announces the availability of funding through cost reimbursable agreements for the Scientific Cooperation Research Program (SCRP) for fiscal year (FY) 2015.  The objective of SCRP is to reduce global poverty and hunger by supporting applied scientific research, extension, or education projects that aim to…

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  • Position Announcement: Environmental Protection Specialist

    USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service is seeking candidates for Environmental Protection Specialist (Climate Change Adaptation Specialist) to work with USAID. 6 February 2015 – Applications Due

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  • PMIL offers webinars on aflatoxin sampling protocols

    Not long after aflatoxin was discovered and methods were developed for analyzing commodities for contamination levels, researchers and the industry quickly realized there was a problem. “I would get a call from the industry explaining that they had tested the same lot three times and gotten 0, 0 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). What’s…

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