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USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey discusses some of the conditions behind an increase in wildfire activity in the Northeast – an unusual occurrence this time of year.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey goes over two of the larger wildfire complexes occurring in the Northeast.

Several areas nationwide have experienced a November of significant rains and snow – a contract to a very dry October. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey comments on heavy snows in parts of the Intermountain West and Plains this month and potential impacts to agriculture.

Forecasters are keeping an eye on development of a system in the Caribbean Sea that could become a tropical storm or hurricane, but what are the chances of landfall in the U.S. mainland? (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at historic trends of tropical storm development in the Atlantic Basin in last week of the hurricane season, and the potential of a system reaching the U.S.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says near to below normal temperatures and near to above normal precipitation is expected for much of the country during the period of November 20 - 26.

USDA has changed its estimate of soybean yields and production, but has not changed its soybean price forecast. (Gary Crawford and USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski)

This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP – in Baku, Azerbaijan includes a day focused solely on agriculture as a key piece of the climate mitigation puzzle. Just fifteen years earlier, farms and forests as climate solutions were afterthoughts at COP. Rod Bain looks at the growing...

A series of USDA grants were recently issued to projects under a set of local and regional food system development and promotion programs. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt