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While best known for crop insurance, USDA's Risk Management Agency also offers programs designed for livestock and dairy producers. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and RMA Acting Administrator Richard Flournoy

Shayle Shagam, USDA livestock analyst, saying after broiler demand dropped in 2020, it's on the rise now.

How can we stem the tide of dairy operation bankruptcies and keep more dairy operators on their farms? Gary Crawford has this report. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Plus. classic comedy entertainers, Homer and Jethro

Shayle Shagam, USDA livestock analyst, with a follow-up to this statement that broiler production during the first quarter of this year was 2% below the same quarter in 2020.

Shayle Shagam, USDA livestock analyst, giving a few wholesale broiler product prices from the end of last week.

A recent USDA study reveals our nation's opioid epidemic appears to have had two distinct phases over the last two decades. (Rod Bain and USDA economic researcher, David McGranahan)

Illicit opioid use has been considered the second phase of the nation's current opioid epidemic with one drug in particular contributing to this increase. (Rod Bain and USDA economic researcher, David McGranahan)

Rapid increase in pace of corn planting, whereas planting numbers for soybeans are not as impressive. (Stephanie Ho and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, has a detailed look at corn planting.

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, has a look at some of the latest corn emergence numbers.