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The Agriculture Department recently announced award recipients for its Specialty Crop Block Grants and Specialty Crop Multi-State Program. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt)

Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt explains the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and Specialty Crop Multi-State Program.

Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt discusses USDA’s Specialty Crop Competitiveness Initiative, and efforts to expand research and market opportunities for the specialty crop industry.

USDA recently announced recipients of Risk Management Education Partnership projects designed to explain crop insurance and risk management to various producer populations. (Rod Bain and Risk Management Agency Administrator Marcia Bunger)

Mary Conklin of the University of Connecticut discusses a recently awarded Risk Management Education Partnership Project to explain the types of efforts receiving funding.

When will the very tight egg market start to ease? (Gary Crawford and USDA livestock analyst, Shayle Shagam)

Does this year’s harvest indicate plenty of fruit from two fall-time favorites … apples and cranberries? (Rod Bain and Fleming Gibson of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Researchers have developed a smartphone app designed to give hog producers better data and tools to address heat stress issues. (Rod Bain and USDA researcher Jay Johnson).

Jay Johnson of the Livestock Behavior Research Unit notes some of the applications hog producers can use to monitor heat stress in their animals through a new smartphone app.

Jay Johnson of the Livestock Behavior Research Unit discusses some of the impacts of heat stress on hogs, and what led researchers like himself to develop a new smartphone app to monitor heat stress.