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* - February 16 - 22 is National Engineers Week - * The career of the 2025 Natural Resources Conservation Service Engineer of the Year includes dedication to control floods through dam engineering and safety. (Rod Bain and Texas State Conservation Engineer Shane Ice)

* - February 16 - 22 is National Engineers Week - * Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Engineer Division Director Kevin Farmer discusses a national honor for federal engineers, and NRCS's Engineer of the Year for 2025.

2025 Natural Resources Conservation Service Engineer of the Year Shane Ice discusses his honor and his career in conservation engineering.

A USDA website has available information for both ag producers and tax experts on various aspects of return preparation with a farm focus. (Rod Bain. Adam Kantrovich of Clemson University Extension. Sarah Campbell of the Farm Service Agency.)

The website, www.ruraltax.org, is one of the resources offered by a committee of land grant university extension tax experts to assist growers and tax pros with return preparation. (Rod Bain. Kevin Burkett of Clemson University. Rob Holcomb of the University of Minnesota.)

Several locales within the Los Angeles metro area … rural as well as urban … are impacted by the destruction of this week’s series of wildfires. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

A developing weather system over the weekend and early next week adds concerns regarding wildfire containment efforts in Southern California. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

What were the findings of quarterly stocks, winter wheat seedings, and annual crop production review among the reports issued Friday by the Agriculture Department Friday to start this calendar year? (Rod Bain)

How did USDA’s Chief Economist and the markets respond to Friday’s annual Crop Production Report revising end-of-year forecasts for 2024’s corn and soybean crops? (Rod Bain and Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

Chief Economist Seth Meyer discusses some of the potential trade reaction to USDA's Quarterly Stocks and Winter Wheat Seedings Reports.