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This year's USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum - the centennial edition - provided opportunity to study the historic trends and impacts of ag trade policies and practices and how that has affected our nation's ag export abilities during that period. Rod Bain looks at a century of U.S. farm and food...

What does USDA’s latest edition of its annual “Rural America at a Glance” report indicate regarding population, demographic, and economic trends in rural areas? Rod Bain looks at some of the findings in this edition of “Agriculture USA”. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Tracey Farrigan of the Economic...

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 familiar voice to you celebrates a milestone in 2024 - fifty years providing Agriculture Department news and information in a style all his own. Rod Bain sits down with colleague Gary Crawford as he discusses his career and highlights from a half century with USDA Radio in this edition of...