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The Agriculture Secretary's weekend visit to Commodity Classic included further details of a economic and emergency assistance program for producers, including a new name. (Rod Bain and Secretary Brooke Rollins)

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explains USDA efforts to streamline the application progress for economic relief assistance for farmers under the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program.

Guatemala and two neighboring Central American markets are the focus of USDA's latest agricultural trade mission taking place this week. (Rod Bain and Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek)

Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek discusses farm and food export sales to various Central American markets in 2024 - markets that are the focus of the latest USDA-led ag trade mission.

Foreign Agricultural Service Acting Associate Administrator Mark Slupek discusses happenings during this week's USDA-led agricultural trade mission to Guatemala and following up on exports sales from this week's event.

The Agriculture Secretary provided an explanation of planned testing of milk samples for possible H5N1 contamination in efforts to prevent spread of the virus. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explains how recent developments in California and a testing regime in Colorado influenced USDA’s recently announced expansion of milk testing for H5N1 virus.

The Agriculture Secretary Thursday visited the site of field trials associated with development of an H5N1 vaccine for dairy cattle. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The Agriculture Secretary Thursday provided more information on the case of a backyard swine in Oregon testing positive for a strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The final U.S. Drought Monitor for October 2024 records record or near-record drought coverage in the lower 48 states. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)