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Producers of eligible crops still have time to submit applications for assistance under USDA's Emergency Relief Program. (Rod Bain and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux)

Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux says eligible farmers who have yet to apply for funding under phase one of the Emergency Relief Program have until December 16th to do so.

If you are a farmer, you should soon be seeing in your mailbox some information about the upcoming Census of Agriculture. (Gary Crawford and Barbara Rater with USDA's Ag. Statistics Service)

The USDA is starting to contact farmers about the new Census of Agriculture. (Gary Crawford and Hubert Hamer, Administrator of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Barbara Rater, Census and Survey Division Director with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, saying every farmer response to the Ag. Census counts toward making the information more accurate and useful.

Data collected in studies such as those collected from a USDA study can help develop improved methods of traceback for a particular e-coli strain associated with foodborne illness. (Rod Bain and researcher, Jim Bono)

If you are buying a real Christmas tree this year, be prepared to pay more for it than you did last season. (Gary Crawford and Tim O'Connor, Executive Director of the National Christmas Tree Association)

The role our nation’s dams play in everything from irrigation, power generation, and recreation is important. Yet with several of these structures aging, work is underway to repair and restore dams while educating those living around these facilities about dam safety awareness. Rod Bain talks with...

*-STATIONS : Dam Safety Awareness Day is Tuesday, May 31st. -* Understanding the importance of safety awareness in areas where dams are located grows more important as more of these structures become surrounded by suburban and urban areas. (Rod Bain and Jose Hernandez of the Natural Resources...

A little known organization is working behind the scenes to guard the world's food supply and prevent sickness and death. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Mary Frances Lowe, U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius Codex Manager.