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Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service discusses training efforts and relationships between USDA graders and meat processing facilities involved in a recently announced remote beef grading pilot program.

Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service explains how USDA grading services are user fee driven and how this may be cost prohibitive for smaller sized meat processing facilities.

The Agriculture Secretary announced an upcoming webinar focused on a newly announced remote beef grading pilot program. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

No major surprises in USDA's December Cattle on Feed report. (Gary Crawford and USDA livestock analyst, Mike McConnell.)

USDA livestock analyst, Mike McConnell, with the key numbers in Friday's USDA Cattle on Feed report.

What were the trends within USDA’s first look at beef production and steer prices for the new year? (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

USDA’s January pork production and hog price forecasts offers a glimpse of the impact from last month’s Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski talks about USDA's January forecasts for broiler and turkey production and prices.

USDA recently awarded its latest round of Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development Program awards to assist organizations in opening and expanding global ag export markets. (Rod Bain and Chris Jacquette of the Foreign Agricultural Service)

Chris Jacquette of the Foreign Agricultural Service provides an example of how the Market Access Program works to gain and expand ag export markets for U.S. commodities.