All Episodes
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Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 9: Building A Sustainable Future For Vineyards
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 ...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 8: Robots & Wine
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 wi...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 7: Tracking Water Usage With AI
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 ...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 6: Wine Charms
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 tast...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 5: Managing Vineyards From Space
ARS researcher Bill Kustas, a Research Hydrologist and Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at ARS’s Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, is p...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 4: Unintended Consequences
ARS researchers are working with the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA) to help wine grape growers adapt to ever-evolving weather patterns as well as extreme weat...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 3: Fatal Attraction
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...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 2: Smoke On The Grapevine
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 c...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Epsiode 1: Where Wine Grape Research Is Needed Most
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 big...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains
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 ta...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 8: Building A Fortress Around Barley
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 t...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 7: Those Despicable Weeds
ARS Ecologist, Martin Williams at ARS’s Global Change and Photosynthesis Unit in Urbana, IL is researching ways to help farmers to deal with their weeds. Williams’ res...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 6: Negotiating With Diseases
ARS research leader Shahryar Kianian and his colleagues at ARS’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul, MN are leaning on the art of negotiation to help oat producers deal wi...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 5: Fun Facts About Cereal Crops
ARS researchers have developed and strengthened our food supply. Listen to learn some fun facts about cereal crops and other foods that can enhance your diet.Connect w...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 4: The Emperor’s Rice
At the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas, ARS geneticist Shannon Pinson studies specialty rice that is beneficial to human health. Her ...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 3: Nutrient Packed Ancient Grains
Ancient grains refers to a category of grains – particularly pseudo-cereals – that possess a very unique health benefit that provide essential nutritional requirements...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 2: Shucking A Nasty Fungus
Corn is grown all over our planet and is an important crop in all parts of our lives. ARS Research Entomologist, Xinzhi Ni at ARS’s Crop Genetics and Breeding Researc...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 1: Kicking Off The Rust In Wheat
Wheat is a big crop in the United States. Stripe rust is one of the most important diseases for wheat. ARS Research Plant Pathlogist, Xianming Chen and researchers w...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees
Honey bees and their pollinating cousins are essential to human life. Without honey bees, we cannot grow a lot of the food we love. Honey bees have been around for mil...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 11: Breeding A Better Bee
Humans have been breeding honey bees for centuries to help them adapt to new environments, and with technology improving at a rapid pace, breeders may now have the too...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 10: A Perfect Symbiosis
ARS research entomologist Dr. Shawn Steffan works in cranberry country, USA – aka Madison, WI. Here, bees are vital to cranberry production, so keeping them healthy an...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 9: The Hunt For A Predator
Join us at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where we talk with ARS researcher Matthew Buffington, who explains how a deadly predator to the ...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 8: Bee Diversity
How many different types of bees can you think of? Bumble bees, honey bees, mason bees. There’s actually a lot more bee diversity than you think, a lot more. Find out...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 7: Honey Bees And Pesticide Exposure
Pesticides are an important tool for managing hungry and destructive insects and invasive species. But there is little known how pesticides affect the bees that pollin...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 6: How To Make Your Yard Pollinator Friendly
Bee experts Liz Walsh and Lanie Bilodeau offer tips for making your home yards more bee friendly.Find out how you can help honey bees by clicking on the extension serv...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 5: The Queen Bee
Being the queen bee may have its perks, but there’s a lot of stress to the job. Sure, you have worker bees bringing you food, grooming you, and caring for your babies....
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 4: A Mite-y Big Problem For Bees
The varroa mite is one of the biggest threats to honey bees around the world. Essentially, it’s a modern honey bee plague. Varroa is an invasive species that originate...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 3: Can Bees Adapt To A New Environment?
Today, bees and other pollinators are facing many pressing issues, either directly related or amplified by extreme weather conditions and new weather patterns. And the...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 2: Bee Health And Survival Long Term
Take a trip with us to ARS’s Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Unit in Albany, CA, where researchers are looking at long-term factors affecting bee health and col...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 1: The State Of The Honey Bee
We sat down with one of the world's leading honey bee experts, Dr. Jay Evans to find out the state of honey bee populations. Are honey bees dying at an alarming rate? ...
