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Big rice production is pushing India to the number one spot in terms of global rice exporters. (Stephanie Ho. WAOB Chair Mark Jekanowski. USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

Retail food prices continue to rise at an unusually rapid rate. (Gary Crawford and Carolyn Chelius, USDA economist)

Meat product prices are on a little bit of a marathon run-up and so is a USDA economist who tracks retail food prices. (Gary Crawford and Carolyn Chelius, USDA economist)

USDA is about to do its first comprehensive survey of U.S. hemp growers in at least six decades. (Gary Crawford. Gerald Tillman with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Bill Richmond with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service)

Bill Richmond, Chief of Hemp Programs in USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, giving reasons why this first USDA survey of hemp growers is so important.