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The Agriculture Secretary's weekend visit to Commodity Classic included further details of a economic and emergency assistance program for producers, including a new name. (Rod Bain and Secretary Brooke Rollins)

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explains USDA efforts to streamline the application progress for economic relief assistance for farmers under the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program.

Guatemala and two neighboring Central American markets are the focus of USDA's latest agricultural trade mission taking place this week. (Rod Bain and Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek)

Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek discusses farm and food export sales to various Central American markets in 2024 - markets that are the focus of the latest USDA-led ag trade mission.

Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek discusses happenings during this week's USDA-led agricultural trade mission to Guatemala and following up on exports sales from this week's event.

Wise food shoppers may be pleasantly surprised by meat prices they find this week at some supermarkets. Gary Crawford grills the experts about holiday meat prices on this edition of Agriculture USA. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and USDA economists, Megan Sweitzer and Shayle Shagam.

USDA's quarterly look at grain stocks will be released in a few hours. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

That holiday weekend cheeseburger will cost more this year......or maybe less. Gary Crawford explains that puzzle in this report. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Megan Sweitzer, USDA economist. Shayle Shagam, USDA livestock analyst.

Many of the nation's farmers are in line for a brief break from the searing heat this week. (Gary Crawford and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey and classic comedian, Groucho Marx)

One expert says wise last minute July 4th food shoppers may find some meat prices lower than a year ago. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and USDA livestock analyst, Shayle Shagam.