Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the...

Protein research is a frontier field in science. Proteins are widely distributed in plants and animals and are the principal constituents of the pr...

Nearly 1 million people and $1.5 billion of trade entered the United States through 328 POEs on an average day in fiscal year 2013. CBP, within the...

The health of the U.S. manufacturing sector has long been of great concern to Congress. The decline in manufacturing employment since the start of ...

The United States is the undisputed world leader in agricultural production today, but as we look out across the 21st century, agriculture faces a ...

Leading markets for U.S. agricultural exports are Canada, Mexico, Japan, the European Union, China, South Korea, and Taiwan. The United States domi...

The Department of State and the Department of Defense (DOD) have long shared responsibility for U.S. assistance to train, equip, and otherwise enga...

Over one million Americans are employed in manufacturing motor vehicles, equipment and parts. But the industry has changed dramatically since the U...

This book looks at U.S. biobased products and their market potential. This study is based upon data and assumptions as of 2006 which were used to i...

Catch share programs are a fishery management tool that dedicates a secure share of quota allowing individual fishermen, fishing cooperatives, fish...

The US coal industry has gone through a number of gradual shifts in recent decades. The industry has become more concentrated, and mine productivit...

Financial stress encountered by dairy farmers in recent years has led Congress and the industry to reconsider how to deal with fluctuations in milk...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is an intergovernmental organisation which acts as an advisor to 28 member countries, including the United St...

Energy supplies and prices are major economic factors in the U.S., and energy markets are volatile and unpredictable. As an aid in policy making, t...

Almost four decades ago, in response to the Arab oil embargo and recession it triggered, Congress passed legislation restricting crude oil exports ...

This book explores economic information about the Nation's commercial and recreational fishing activities, and fishing-related industries. Descript...

Tens of thousands of foreign nationals travel to the United States each year under the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) visa programs...

Transportation is important. It is about people and how they live their lives, how they get to work, how they get their children to school, how the...

Grasslands provide both ecological and economic benefits. The importance of grasslands lies not only in the areas they cover, but also in the diver...

Fuel cells (FCs) are considered essential future energy technologies by developed and developing economies alike. Several countries, including the ...

The U.S. petroleum refining industry -- the largest refining industry in the world -- experienced a period of high product prices and industry prof...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

Rice, an ancient grain, is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, through its role in the diets of billions of low-income, f...