Science In Your Shopping Cart

4:49

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/09/29

Let ARS do the shopping for you! Here are some new food varieties from ARS that will certainly wet your appetite. And best of all, no delivery charge!Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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8:25

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/09/22

Salinas Valley in Northern California is better known as the salad bowl of the world. It’s where cool coastal air meets rows of green plots, and where ARS researchers are turning some of your favorite vegetables into nutritional powerhouses.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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9:40

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/09/15

There are rice producers all over the country, but the main producer of rice in the United States might surprise you. In this episode, we share what makes for ideal rice growing conditions. We also discover a new type of rice that might make you wonder if you have wandered into a movie theater.

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12:58

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/09/08

We visit the ARS Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research Unit, where researchers live and breathe pulse crops—peas, lentils, and chickpeas.

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9:55

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/09/01

ARS Researchers are breeding peanuts that are resistant to diseases that greatly impact peanut quality and yield.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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9:05

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/08/25

Citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB, is a vector borne disease that has devastated the citrus industry here in Florida. There is no cure, but ARS researchers and their colleagues are developing an arsenal of solutions that will sweeten the citrus industry here in the sunshine state.

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13:00

Season 13: Fresh, New Varieties For Your Shopping...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2026/08/18

Imagine a library… but instead of books, it holds seeds, cuttings, and living plants from every corner of the world. Today, we’re stepping into a living library to tell the history and future of new food varieties – how they have been selected, improved, and delivered from the farm to your shopping cart.

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88:57

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/07/15

ARS researchers make sure the science, chemistry, and math all add up to great wine grape production across the U.S. Learn about ARS’s crucial roles in wine grape production as our researchers’ find answers to the biggest problems facing the nation’s wine grape industry. For this season of Science in Your Shopping Cart, we’re hitting the virtual wine trail to learn the science behind wine grape growing and how everything in our environment, including wildfires, can influence the

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9:10

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 10:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/07/08

ARS researchers Nancy Keim and Wally Yokoyama are looking to turn wine waste – mainly pomace or what the researchers call marcs – into healthy food products that end up in our shopping carts. Keim is studying the health benefits of combinations of chardonnay grape pomace and chardonnay grape extract. As expected, the enriched flour is high in fiber and has a lot of bioactive material, which means it will react favorably with organs, tissues, or cells in the human body. How this material

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9:19

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 9:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/07/01

ARS researcher Kerri Steenwerth, a research soil scientist with the Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit in Davis, CA, battles weather extremes and ways to keep wine grape growers ahead of the environmental curve. Her research involves regenerative viticulture practices, which is similar to regenerative farming, or farming with sustainability and the environment in mind. Regenerative farming focuses on building and sustaining healthy soil, and it’s not a new practice; it’s been

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10:50

Season 12: Cheers to Wine Grapes | Episode 8: Robots...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/06/24

ARS researcher Lance Cadle-Davidson, a research plant pathologist at ARS’s Grape Genetics Research Unit in the finger lakes region in Geneva, NY, is helping protect wine vineyards that produce European style wines in the U.S. Cadle-Davidson and his team have created an automated process utilizing high resolution cameras with illumination to see fungal disease easily from LED lighting with artificial intelligence to quantify disease and robotics that capture images quickly in an automated

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7:05

Season 12: Cheers to Wine Grapes | Episode 7:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/06/17

ARS researcher Bradley King, a research agricultural engineer at ARS’s Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research lab in Kimberly, ID, is utilizing AI technology to help wine growers determine the best times to water their vineyards. King and his colleagues developed a validated, automated model that uses artificial intelligence to remotely calculate the daily crop water stress index so wine growers know when to water their vines, and how much, to achieve maximum results for great tasting

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5:13

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 6: Wine...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/06/10

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) protects and helps the wine industry thrive in the United States. Learn some fun facts to share at your next wine tasting including the birthplace of American wine.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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10:58

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 5:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/06/03

ARS researcher Bill Kustas, a Research Hydrologist and Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at ARS’s Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, is part of a collaborative team called GRAPEX. The GRAPEX research program involves using satellites and even unoccupied aerial vehicles to identify vine water use and stress throughout a vineyard. Growers can use these data to determine if certain areas are getting too much, too little, or just the right amount of irrigated

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7:47

Season 12: Cheers to Wine Grapes | Episode 4:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/05/27

ARS researchers are working with the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA) to help wine grape growers adapt to ever-evolving weather patterns and the challenges associated with this changing environment. Believe it or not, it may not be all bad. One of the unintended consequences of shifting weather patterns is the ability of certain regions to produce grape varieties they’ve never been able to grow before. This is also creating a resurgence of grape production in areas that were once

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8:55

Season 12: Cheers to Wine Grapes | Episode 3: Fatal...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/05/20

Meet ARS researcher Jacob Corcoran, a research molecular biologist at ARS’s Biological Control of Insects Unit in Columbia, MO. Corcoran and his team are working on a new age, next generation approach to biological control to slow down the reproductive process to protect wine vineyards from dreaded vine mealybugs.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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8:23

Season 12: Cheers to Wine Grapes | Episode 2: Smoke...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/05/13

ARS researcher Arran Rumbaugh, a research chemist at the Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit in Davis, CA, is studying how smoke from wildfires can affect the chemical composition of wine grapes. Wildfires from 2020 hurt wine grape production and had an estimated 3.7 billion dollars of economic impact on the wine industry due to smoke exposure and fire. Dr. Rumbaugh is working on an early screening method that could quickly detect the smoke exposure and impact on grapevines.

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8:14

Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Epsiode 1: Where...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/05/06

ARS researchers work with the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA) to initiate novel research projects and programs to solve industry challenges. And there’s no bigger challenge today than dealing with extreme weather and shifting weather patterns. Thankfully, ARS researchers are on the job, working with the NGRA to solve problems and find solutions in the areas that grape research is needed most.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn:

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69:40

Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/04/29

ARS researchers have been instrumental in developing cereal crops and enhancing food for the American people. In this season of Science in Your Shopping Cart, we’re taking a trip down the cereal crop aisle, where we’ll dive into the challenges of growing popular cereal crops, explore the growing popularity of ancient grains, and taste a rice that’s fit for an emperor.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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7:09

Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 8:...

Science In Your Shopping Cart ·

2025/04/22

ARS Research Geneticist, Dr. Dolores Mornhinweg at the Peanut and Small Grains Research Unit in Stillwater, OK is developing new Barley crop lines that are resistant to pests such as the Russian Wheat Aphid.Barley is an important part of the U.S. economy, bringing in over a billions dollars in crop value. The Russian Wheat Aphid is a major pest to barley production in the U.S.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars

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