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The Agriculture Department is taking some actions designed to help school meal providers cope with Supply Chain problems brought on by the pandemic. (Gary Crawford. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean. School Nutrition Association President-Elect Lori Adkins)

Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture Stacy Dean with more details on the one billion dollars of cash payments to states to help strengthen school meal programs.

Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture Stacy Dean saying the pandemic has confirmed how important school meals are to the health and performance of students.

Producers are receiving a USDA survey on agricultural activity and basic farm information that serves as a pre-cursor to the Census of Agriculture. (Rod Bain and Cathy Scherrer of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Cathy Scherrer of the National Agricultural Statistics Service discusses the National Agricultural Classification Survey, a pre-survey connected to the 2022 Census of Agriculture, due by January 24th.

Nineteen projects nationwide are recipients of the latest round of USDA Conservation Innovation Grants. (Rod Bain and Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Terry Cosby)

Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Terry Cosby discusses one of the nineteen projects awarded Conservation Innovation Grant funding as an example of how the program works.

If you are sending or receiving holiday cards this season, you are part of a 178 year-old tradition---a tradition even if the card is sent electronically. (Gary Crawford and Anne Effland, USDA history expert)

Corn and soybean markets are reacting to lower-than-expected planted acres numbers in USDA's Acreage report. (Gary Crawford. USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer. Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, with an overview of the acreage numbers for soybeans.