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Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie discusses past and ongoing Natural Resources Conservation Service efforts to improve and enhance watersheds, including recent infrastructure investments.

Budget minded food shoppers are adjusting their buying patterns in response to rising prices. (Gary Crawford and Andy Harig with the Food Marketing Institute)

Could Idled Conservation Reserve Program lands be opened up on an emergency basis to plant grain crops? (Gary Crawford and USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux)

USDA is urging farmers to enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs, even though commodity prices are very high. (Gary Crawford and Zach Ducheneaux, Administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency)

Farmers don't have much time to enroll in USDA's Pandemic Cover Crop Program. (Gary Crawford and Marcia Bunger, Administrator of USDA's Risk Management Agency)

The Agriculture Secretary offered his views of President Biden's inaugural State of the Union address. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The Agriculture Secretary discusses examples of how our nation's forms of infrastructure and supply chains can be improved upon. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The deadline is only days away for choosing a new pilot crop insurance tool to reduce the risks of splitting fertilizer applications, (Gary Crawford and USDA Risk Management Administrator Marcia Bunger)

What do cotton production, supply and price forecasts look like for this marketing year? (Rod Bain and James Johnson, USDA Cotton Analyst)