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USDA is projecting another year of rising imports of agricultural products. (Gary Crawford and USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

How might crossing desirable traits in both dairy and beef cattle produce animals that can provide value-added to its owners? (Rod Bain and Olivia Genther-Shroder of Purina)

Olivia Genther-Shroder of Purina explains the schedule for raising a potential crossbred beef-dairy cow, and how that coincides with various beef export requirements.

Olivia Genther-Shroder of Purina discusses some of the desired genetic traits focused on in beef-dairy cattle crossbreeding.

USDA Radio's Gary Crawford selected one event as his most memorable in covering fifty years of the Agriculture Department. (Rod Bain and Gary Crawford)

USDA Radio Reporter-Producer Gary Crawford discusses his coverage of the winter 1979 tractorcade on the National Mall in Washington DC.

USDA has changed its estimate of soybean yields and production, but has not changed its soybean price forecast. (Gary Crawford and USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski)

This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP – in Baku, Azerbaijan includes a day focused solely on agriculture as a key piece of the climate mitigation puzzle. Just fifteen years earlier, farms and forests as climate solutions were afterthoughts at COP. Rod Bain looks at the growing...

A series of USDA grants were recently issued to projects under a set of local and regional food system development and promotion programs. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt

The large cotton crop that producers are currently harvesting is putting downward pressure on prices. (Gary Crawford and USDA Outlook Chairman Mark Jekanowski)