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Properly heat-treated firewood keeps invasive insects and plant pests from traveling with it when transported, but how to locate it? (Rod Bain and Kathryn Bronsky of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)

Kathryn Bronsky of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service notes how her agency's website provides information on existing invasive pest quarantines and firewood movement restrictions. (Web address - "www.aphis.usda.gov")

What are the primary play calls for Super Bowl party planners and food safety experts when assuring delicious yet safe selections for watching the game, or for any pre or post-game events? (Rod Bain and USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers)

USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers talks about clean, separate, cook, and chill - the four pillars of food safety and how they apply to getting your Super Bowl party food presentation prepared and safe to eat.

A USDA food safety expert provides examples of how to take what is known as the "two-hour rule" in account when practicing food safety for your Super Bowl party. (Rod Bain and Meredith Carothers)

USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers discusses the food safety practice of never leaving food out at room temperature for more than two hours, as well as ways to keep food safe.

An early week weather system traveling through the Deep South is bringing blizzard warnings, potentially heavy snows and deep cold. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - two federal agencies that work together in a myriad of agricultural, food security, natural resource, and climatic realms. It is a partnership that some may not realize exists, let alone what this...

Presidential inaugurations, such as swearing-in of President Donald Trump this year, sometimes make history just by the weather conditions experienced in the hours and day of, and those surrounding, the event. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. President Donald Trump. Supreme Court Chief...

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey notes some of the metropolitan areas of the Deep South expected to experience, if they have not already, high snow accumulations and bitter cold the early part of this week.