The problems with Covid have been extended and so the USDA is also extending some pandemic-related crop insurance flexibilities. (Gary Crawford and Marcia Bunger, Administrator of USDA's Risk Management Agency)

Marcia Bunger, Administrator of USDA's Risk Management Agency, says USDA and the crop insurance industry are being as nimble as possible as they try to act and react to the Covid situation. That's why certain pandemic-related flexibilities are being extended.

USDA has set the signup dates for the Conservaton Reserve Program. (Gary Crawford. Former President Ronald Reagan. Zach Ducheneaux, Administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency)

Zach Ducheneaux, Administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency, giving this year's signup dates for the Conservation Reserve Program.

Zach Ducheneaux, Administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency, saying farmers should call ahead for Conservation Reserve Program signup appointments.

Recipients will be receiving USDA's first National Agroforestry Survey in the mail by early February. (Rod Bain and Joe Parsons of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Joe Parsons of the National Agricultural Statistics Service discusses how a 2017 Census of Agriculture question became a first ever USDA survey on agroforestry practices.

Joe Parsons of the National Agricultural Statistics Service explains various agroforesty practices that will be part of USDA's upcoming National Agroforestry Survey.

Years of work on pig genetics helped to make the recent pig-to-human heart transplant possible. (Gary Crawford and Dr. Joan Lunney with USDA's Agricultural Research Service)

Dr. Joan Lunney, USDA scientist, saying that the steps leading up to the recent pig-to-human heart transplant not only included years of breeding pigs to be more like humans in genetic makeup, but also years of testing organ transplants. And even today, there's no way to know how long the current...