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What are some of the challenges that remain for Black farmers in this country? (Stephanie Ho; Philip Haynie, National Black Growers Council Chairman; Shirley Sherrod, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education Executive-Director)
USDA estimates more than 13-thousand loans to Black and socially-disadvantaged farmers will be forgiven under the American Rescue Plan. (Stephanie Ho and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack)
The southeast quadrant of the county could face another round of heavy rains, thunderstorms and perhaps tornadoes over the last two days of March. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)
What were some of the impacts of another severe weather outbreak in parts of the Southeast over the past weekend? (Rod Bain and USDA, meteorologist Brad Rippey)
Markets are anxiously awaiting release shortly of USDA's Prospective Plantings report. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service) ***Report to be released Wed. March 31, Noon EDT***
Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, saying that USDA is about to release its Grain stocks report, along with the Prospective Plantings report. (Wednesday, March 31, Noon EDT)