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USDA announced Wednesday it is considering various egg import and export options as one way to lower egg prices in our country. (Rod Bain and Agriculture Department Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller)

A focus on innovations, including possible vaccination of poultry flocks, are part of recently announced USDA strategies to build up domestic egg supplies and reduce consumer egg prices. (Rod Bain and USDA Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller)

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides a page at its website to provide resources in detection and prevention of invasive species that threaten livestock and domestic animals. (Rod Bain and APHIS entomologist...

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service entomologist Denise Bonilla talks about her agency’s educational website on invasive pests that threaten both livestock and domestic animals … "www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease".

Animal disease preparedness is the focus of tabletop training exercises simulating response to potential outbreaks, including several with USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service as a participant. Rod Bain looks at how these exercises provide necessary understand and course of action...

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is one of the collaborators of an annual awareness and education campaign focused on invasive pest impacts and how the public can help in control and eradication efforts. (Rod Bain...

Shane Ice’s career in designing watershed conservation landscapes and flood control methods through dam safety is recognized through recent federal honors. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Texas State Conservation Engineer Shane Ice. Kevin Farmer of the Natural Resources Conservation...

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service entomologist Denise Bonilla discusses an invasive pest in our country for well over a decade, and collaborative effort to address it.

A desert plant with a unique name continues to draw increasing interest from researchers looking at its potential as source of rubber and latex for various products. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Katrina Cornish of the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* Denise Bonilla of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service talks about potential threats from an invasive tick species to animals – both livestock and domesticated.