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.

Warmer temperatures will be prevalent across much of the nation this week, but what potential ag impacts could it cause and where? (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

More consumers are realizing how producer-funded commodity checkoff programs provides them a myriad of usable items – whether products, education, or information. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Famous thespians Robert Mitchum and Sam Elliot. Mac Marshall and Kyle Durham of the United...

Resources are available for elders, their children and caregivers, to help protect them from issues such as scams and abuse via Cooperative Extension programs and offerings. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Kathy Tutt of Ohio State University Extension

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey talks about what has been a significant temperature swing across parts of the country over the past week.