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USDA recently announced a new subcommittee within its National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board – one focused on pollinator health and conservation. (Rod Bain and USDA Chief Scientist Chavonda Jacobs-Young)

USDA Chief Scientist Chavonda Jacobs-Young explains the make-up and intent of a new National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board subcommittee.

USDA Chief Scientist Chavonda Jacobs-Young discusses the role of a federal advisory board to ag research and research policy, including a newly formed subcommittee on pollinators.

A younger generation of farm producers is taking initiative with more direct marketing of their products as both a sales vehicle and a method to learn what their customers demand. (Rod Bain and Chad Hart of Iowa State University)

Present varieties, future cultivars, and past steeped in culture and history are all part of USDA’s apple genetic collection found in New York State. (Rod Bain and geneticist Ben Guiterrez)

USDA geneticist Ben Guiterrez discusses some of the cultural and historical connections associated with an apple germplasm collection in New York State.

The Environmental Protection Agency Friday announced it will again waive restrictions and allow summertime sale of fuels blended with fifteen per cent ethanol at fuels pump across the country. (Rod Bain and EPA Administrator Michael Regan)

A USDA official is clearing up some misinformation about USDA's program of financial assistance for producers who have in the past been discriminated against in USDA lending programs. (Gary Crawford and Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture Gloria Montano Greene)

Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture Gloria Montano Greene with an important update on USDA's financial assistance programs for producers who in the past were discriminated against in USDA lending programs.

The latest USDA Agricultural Prices report shows a total increase in what livestock producers received for prices for their commodities, and how that impacted the total ag price index. (Rod Bain)