of other Federal Agencies -Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), National Center for Education Statistics (DoEd), Head Start (HHS), HUD, and the Employment and Training Administration (DoL) -initiated a project to provide postcensal estimates of income and poverty for small areas during the 1990's. While current plans for the 2000 census include a system of "continuous measurement" which will peri...

1Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1 2Western Human Nutrition Research Center, ARS, USDA, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA 3Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, ARS, USDA, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9034, USA 4Department of Physical Education, Exercise Science and Wellness, The University of North Dakota, ...

a Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, San Marcos, TX 78666, United States b Department of Geography, McClure Hall 203, P.O. Box 443021, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, United States c Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ...

a King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia b European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy c USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA d Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technology (CALMIT), School of Natural Resources, Unive...

Blowing dust from excessively tilled fallow fields is a major soil loss and air quality concern in the low precipitation (<300 mm annual) wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production region of the Inland Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States. A 2-year tillage-based winter wheat-summer fallow (WW-SF) rotation is practiced on >90% of rainfed cropland in the region. Earlier research proved the u...

A. H. FULLERTON*, K. M. BURNETT , E. A. STEEL, R. L . FLITCROFT, G. R. PESS* , B . E. FEIST* , C. E . TORGERSEN , D. J . MILLER AND B.L. SANDERSON* *NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, WA, U.S.A. USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Sci...

As part of an overall effort to address obesity among elementary schoolaged children, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed MyPyramid for Kids (Figure 1), a childfriendly adaptation of the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. MyPyramid for Kids is designed to help children 6-11 years old understand and follow the dietary guidance of the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. Materials developed...

Food demand is an important component of the agricultural sector and much food preparation occurs in the home. While there is much information about the market cost of food, there has been no information about the preparation cost of food at home because there has been no data available on the quantity of time spent in food preparation. Using newly released time diary data from the Bureau of La...