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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 Under Secretary of Agriculture Dr. Emilio Esteban) says USDA's proposed anti-Salmonella plan for poultry offers several layers of food safety protection.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says above normal temperatures and precipitation is expected for most of the country during the period of August 6 - 12.

USDA Rural Development programs not only helped a Virginia entrepreneur open a digital theater, but is also providing energy and cost savings (Rod Bain and Brett Hayes)

Virginia digital theater owner-operator Brett Hayes discusses the benefits of a solar panel energy system for his theater building – one developed through a USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grant.

Trees and green spaces may do more for us than just helping clean the air we breathe and the water we drink. (Gary Crawford and Michelle Kondo, U.S. Forest Service social scientist)

Corn and soybean condition ratings continue good. (Gary Crawford and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, with the latest on corn crop progress.

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, with the latest on soybean development.

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, with corn condition by state.