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ARS’ Research Timeline Expanded, Updated

For nearly a century before the Agricultural Research Service was established in 1953, U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists were hard at work. ARS’ "Research Timeline" is a World Wide Web compendium of USDA scientific and other achievements since 1862.

Just added are feature stories on key research accomplishments, significant scientific results from the year 2000, and dozens of additional photographs.

View this chronological history at:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/timeline

Initially, the web timeline duplicated the printed version that appeared in the December 1999 issue of Agricultural Research, the monthly magazine published by ARS. The newest expansion adds 22 features linked to individual timeline entries:

20th century insect control
ARS helps science flourish at 1890 schools
Conquering cattle tick fever
Conserving the world’s plants
Do you know a soybean when you eat it...wear it...read it?
Eradicating hog cholera
Finding new uses for surplus products
Founding American nutrition science
Frozen food that’s freezer friendly
Fueling the Green Revolution

Improving corn
Making fabrics friendly
More and better citrus
Probing the mystery of life
Processing cotton
Saving a fragile resource
Starch that slurps
Subduing the screwworm
Tackling foot and mouth disease
The rescue of penicillin
Tracking the elusive viroid
Tripping the light switch fantastic

The timeline will continue to be updated with new items.