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A family dream and community connections are behind efforts to produce and promote coffee from Hawaii's Ka'u region, from the perspective of a mother-daughter coffee grower team. (Rod Bain and Joan Obra)

Hawaiian coffee producers and sellers, Lorie and Joan Obra, discuss their efforts to keep the dreams of Lorie's husband alive, and in the process, play a role in establishing the Ka'u district as a premiere coffee region.

USDA is helping producers affected by those catastrophic wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma. (Gary Crawford)

USDA is conducting farmer surveys for two major reports that will be released later this month. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

What does USDA say regarding milk production, product demand, and prices for this new year? (Rod Bain and economist Michael McConnell)

USDA economist Michael McConnell provides projections for this year's milk product and class prices, as well as the all-milk price.

Efforts in forest preservation and conservation by women have been around before our nation’s forests came under federal oversight. (Rod Bain and Rachel Kline of the U.S. Forest Service)

U.S. Forest Service historian Rachel Kline talks about some of the advocacy efforts of women in preserving and conserving our nation's forests, its resources, and its habitats in the late 19th century.

A senior USDA trade official discussed some of the possible impacts on agriculture trade associated with a potential government shutdown. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor)

Representatives from various state agriculture departments offered their perspective on potential trade opportunities after participating in a USDA-led ag trade mission to Chile. (Rod Bain. North Dakota Ag Commissioner Doug Goehring. Colorado Ag Commissioner Kate Greenberg.)