Radio Newsline Archive

How will the new American Jobs Plan help rural communities? (Stephanie Ho and President Biden)

Corn markets got a surprise in USDA's Prospective Plantings Report. (Gary Crawford. Lance Honig with USDA's Ag. Statistics Service and USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

Farmers intend to boost soybean acreage this year, but not by as much as many had expected. (Gary Crawford. Lance Honig with USDA's Ag. Statistics Service and USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

USDA is reporting more winter wheat acreage than had been expected. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, with the planting intentions totals for the 22 principal crops.

Wednesday's USDA report on planting intentions may cause a lot of head scratching by market analysts. it was full of surprises. (Gary Crawford, USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer and Clara Peller).

Experts say the USDA Prospective Plantings report is an indication of what farmers are thinking, not a crystal ball. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

February noted increases in what various grain and oilseed growers earned pricewise, per USDA's latest Agricultural Prices report. (Rod Bain)

The USDA-NRCS DamWatch web application recently added dams on U.S. Forest Service lands among those monitored for safety. (Rod Bain and NRCS Acting Chief Terry Cosby)

Natural Resources Conservation Service Acting Chief Terry Cosby talks about the recent inclusion of dams on U.S. Forest Service lands under an NRCS dam monitoring web application.