This 4th of July grills across America will be fired up for cookouts. On this edition of Agriculture USA Gary Crawford has some tips from an expert on how to keep cookouts from being sickouts. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Meredith Carothers, food safety expert with USDA's...

It might be a surprise to some that a division of USDA’s Rural Development mission area offers housing programs in many realms of the housing process, which in turn, provides rural citizens the opportunity of home ownership and affordable housing. Rod Bain looks at the portfolio of programs in this...

Are bugs bugging you at your cookout or picnic? So, what can we do about these annoying buggaboo? Gary Crawford has some advice from an expert on this edition of Agriculture USA. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Kait Chapman, extension insect expert at the University of Nebraska.

A series of programs, led primarily by USDA’s Organic Transition Initiative, are designed to assist farmers switching from conventional to organic agriculture, and develop markets for organically grown commodities and products. Rod Bain looks at some of these efforts in this edition of “Agriculture...