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Lucas Blaustein of the Foreign Agricultural Service explains the opportunity the USA Pavilion at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar provides to grow potential ag and food export markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

A decade ago Christmas tree growers were worried about the long term future of their industry. Today that worry is changing into optimism. (Gary Crawford. Tim O'Connor, Executive Director of the Nationial Christmas Tree Association and some Christmas tree buyers)

Producers of eligible crops still have time to submit applications for assistance under USDA's Emergency Relief Program. (Rod Bain and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux)

Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux says eligible farmers who have yet to apply for funding under phase one of the Emergency Relief Program have until December 16th to do so.

If you are a farmer, you should soon be seeing in your mailbox some information about the upcoming Census of Agriculture. (Gary Crawford and Barbara Rater with USDA's Ag. Statistics Service)

The USDA is starting to contact farmers about the new Census of Agriculture. (Gary Crawford and Hubert Hamer, Administrator of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Barbara Rater, Census and Survey Division Director with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, saying every farmer response to the Ag. Census counts toward making the information more accurate and useful.

Data collected in studies such as those collected from a USDA study can help develop improved methods of traceback for a particular e-coli strain associated with foodborne illness. (Rod Bain and researcher, Jim Bono)

If you are buying a real Christmas tree this year, be prepared to pay more for it than you did last season. (Gary Crawford and Tim O'Connor, Executive Director of the National Christmas Tree Association)

The two major countries on the Iberian Peninsula are the focus of USDA’s latest agriculture trade mission, scheduled to take place next week. (Rod Bain and Cary Sifferath of the U.S. Grains Council)