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Several specific-topic reports are issued by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service as part of its continued release of 2022 Census of Agriculture data. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Bryan Combs of USDA-NASS

The latest round of USDA Conservation Innovation Grant awards continues a two-decade effort to invest in conservation practices and trials of such innovations. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Karen Woodrich of the Natural Resources Conservation Service

A recent announced by USDA and California’s Department of Food and Ag revealed the success of quarantine and eradication efforts against various invasive fruit fly species. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Richard Johnson of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

If you are a farmer or farm worker, an expert has some advice to help get you through severe heat conditions. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Ohio State University health and safety educator, Dee Jepsen. USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey.

Custom harvesters experience a wide range of stresses associated with their year-round efforts to bring the crops in from the fields. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Beau Froese and John Dyke of U.S. Custom Harvesters.

USDA is going the extra mile to provide the information that the operators of small meat processing plants need to thrive. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service Paul Kiecker

The Agriculture Secretary recently explained ways in which urban ag and USDA's efforts to improve equity in farming are connected. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack

Proposed recommendations for modifications within Federal Milk Marketing Orders are now available for public comment – what would be the first significant changes to FMMO’s in over two decades. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Agricultural Marketing Service Deputy Administrator Dana...

A division of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is responsible for determining regulations associated with a plant species developed through biotechnology. Rod Bain looks at part of the assessment process in this report. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Abigail Walter of APHIS’s...

Christmas tree growers are working hard in record-breaking heat getting those trees ready for us this winter. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Christmas tree growers, John Tillman, Beth Walterscheidt and Jim Gehlsen.