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Web links to stories issued March 11-15, 2013 ___________________________________________

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USDA Agricultural Research Service
March 15, 2013
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Nutrition and epigenetics:
Pioneering studies funded by USDA are helping explain how the foods that soon-to-be-moms eat in the days and weeks around the time of conception may affect the way genes function in her children, and her children's health. (3/11) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2013/130311.htm

Sheep grazing and soil quality:
A USDA scientist is giving guidance to growers in Montana and the Dakotas on how grazing sheep when fields are left fallow will affect soil quality. (3/14) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2013/130314.htm

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