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A USDA veterinary official says the U.S. and Mexico are making progress on the Mexican screwworm situation. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Dr. Burke Healey with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
What's the outlook for U.S. agricultural trade in 2025? USDA has a new forecast. Gary Crawford has the story. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer.
Heavy snows last week in the Great Lakes region, and increasing Southern rainfall this week, highlight weather activity in the nation of late. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey discusses some of the weather patterns last week that led to snowstorms downwind of the Great Lakes during Thanksgiving week.
USDA recently released its most recent survey results looking at trends in ag irrigation and water management for 2023. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Julie Weber of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey goes over some of the more notable accumulation totals associated with a Thanksgiving week series of snow storms in the Great Lakes area.
The online registration page is now available for the Agriculture Department's 101st edition of its Ag Outlook Forum scheduled in late February 2025. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski
USDA's centennial Agricultural Outlook Forum provided opportunity to recall significant milestones within one-hundred years of our nation’s agricultural trade efforts. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and USDA Senior Economist Sharon Sydow
Guidelines will facilitate the recognition of climate-smart agriculture within clean transportation fuel programs, creating new market opportunities for biofuel feedstock producers while enhancing climate benefits.
Growing up on a farm in Northeast Iowa taught me the values of resilience and innovation—qualities that have guided my work as USDA’s Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. I reflect on the progress we have made in advancing U.S. agricultural exports and driving economic growth.
In 2022, Dr. Engil Pereira, professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), participated in the E. Kika De La Garza (EKDLG) Fellowship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at the National Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Packers & Stockyards rules are part of a suite of new policies to give farmers better insight into key aspects of the agricultural system, from genetic components and pricing of seeds they purchase, to livestock market rates, so they can achieve fairer returns and plan better for their businesses.