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USDA announced producers eligible for the Census of Horticultural Specialties now have additional time to fill out and submit their surveys. (Rod Bain and Lance Honig of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is among various animal health stakeholders involved in tabletop training exercise to improve response to a potential incident or outbreak. (Rod Bain and Chief Veterinarian Rosemary Sifford)

USDA Chief Veterinarian Rosemary Sifford discusses both general and specific topic-oriented animal health response training exercises.

USDA Chief Veterinarian Rosemary Sifford discusses some of the tabletop training exercise resources available from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to strengthen animal disease response.

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)