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Among the entities behind USDA efforts to expand competition within the meat and poultry processing sector - livestock marketers and sale barn operators. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Secretary Tom Vilsack. Chelsea Good of the Livestock Marketing Association.

A weather disturbance forming in the mid- Atlantic Ocean has potential to develop into a tropical system near the U.S. by this weekend. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says above normal temperatures and precipitation are the predominant weather trends for much of the country for the period of September 26 - October 2.