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* - National Pollinator Week is June 17 - 23 - * USDA researchers are looking into how potential climate impacts affect both pollinator health and nutrition. (Rod Bain and Gayle Hoffman)

* - June 17 - 23 is National Pollinator Month - * USDA researcher Gayle Hoffman discusses the importance of pollinator gardens in the overall wellbeing of pollinator populations.

Here's a story about a unique rural housing program. (Gary Crawford. USDA Rural Housing Service Administrator Joaquin Altoro. Idaho home owner, Sandra Sauceda) ****June is National Home Ownership Month.****

Idaho homeowner, Sandra Sauceda, talks about one of rules of the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program.

How do the numbers USDA forecasts for U.S. wheat production this month factor into the latest domestic supply and demand estimate? (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

Wheat production forecasts in Russia and Ukraine were reduced by USDA this month, but what is behind this decrease? (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

Production forecasts for Russia and Ukraine are the predominant items within USDA's corn World Supply and Demand Estimate this month. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

One expert says don;t carve USDA's Prospective Planting acres in stone. A lot can happen before the seed drops. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

There are a variety of means commercial business, municipalities, and private landowners have available in efforts to control mosquito populations. (Rod Bain and Jamie Kopco of Penn State University Extension)

Municipalities and some private homeowners take what is known as a systematic approach to reducing mosquito populations in the Spring and Summer months. (Rod Bain and Jamie Kopco of Penn State University Extension)