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Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan Teams Up with USDA’s Certified Beef Program

July 12, 2011 Craig Morris, AMS Deputy Administrator, Livestock and Seed Program

Nolan Ryan is one of the greatest icons in Major League Baseball history – a first-ballot Hall of Fame member and team president of the Texas Rangers. But Ryan is special in another way: he heads the Nolan Ryan Guaranteed Tender Beef Program, one of just a few marketing programs verified by USDA’s...

Food and Nutrition

Baseball bats are safer thanks to the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Lab

June 07, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service

Baseball fans thrill at the thought of hearing a bat crack. But seeing an actual bat shatter is not one of those thrills. That’s because this seemingly harmless wood breaking can be dangerous for the players and fans and is the reason that the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Lab has worked for...

Forestry

Faces of the Forest Celebrates Dave Kretschmann

May 26, 2011 Kathryn Sosbe, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

You might say that Dave Kretschmann has engineered his way into Major League Baseball’s history books. Kretschmann’s work as a research general engineer led him to figure out why so many bats used by Major League Baseball were shattered. “Since late in the 2008 season, we’ve seen video of every...

Forestry
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