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Ten projects were awarded USDA grants designed to foster market development for organic agricultural products. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Lower domestic milk production both in 2023 and 2024 is expected to assist with higher prices in some product and class categories, per USDA’s latest forecasts. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski covers USDA's latest outlook for milk product and class prices.

The Agriculture Secretary says a new pilot program gives small-sized beef processing facilities opportunity for their products to receive USDA grading. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack discusses a 2023 feasibility study that provided the impetus for a recently announced remote beef grading pilot program.

Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service discusses training efforts and relationships between USDA graders and meat processing facilities involved in a recently announced remote beef grading pilot program.

Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service explains how USDA grading services are user fee driven and how this may be cost prohibitive for smaller sized meat processing facilities.

The Agriculture Secretary announced an upcoming webinar focused on a newly announced remote beef grading pilot program. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

No major surprises in USDA's December Cattle on Feed report. (Gary Crawford and USDA livestock analyst, Mike McConnell.)

USDA livestock analyst, Mike McConnell, with the key numbers in Friday's USDA Cattle on Feed report.