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The Farm Service Agency partners with a private entity to offer an online tool for producers wishing more details on one of USDA's more flexible disaster assistance programs. (Rod Bain and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux)

Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux explains the growing flexibilities within its ELAP disaster assistance program and how a new online decision - making tool can assist producers.

Selected communities now have assistance in developing wildfire defense plans, thanks in part to recently awarded U.S. Forest Service grants. (Rod Bain and Brad Simpkins of the Forest Service)

Brad Simpkins of the U.S. Forest Service discusses the purpose behind Community Wildfire Defense Grants in efforts to plan for wildfire protection and response.

We will soon have a better idea of what the upcoming wheat marketing year will bring. (Gary Crawford and USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski)

USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski says USDA is collecting data for its big acreage report.

Producers on average received more price-wise for their commodities in March, as revealed in the latest Agriculture Department Ag Prices Report. (Rod Bain)

The proposed American Families Plan would protect most farmers from big capital gains taxes. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack saying that the American Families Plan has no changes to current farm estate tax rules.

Families struggling to put food on the table are, of course, benefitting from stepped up nutrition assistance programs, such as SNAP, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the benefits extend to many other Americans. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)