Radio Newsline Archive

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is urging lawmakers not to forget the thousands of farm families who are in dire financial trouble. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The agricultural situation in Ukraine is adding extra challenges to an already challenged world food system. Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The Agriculture Secretary says he's "excited" by the responses to USDA's call for proposed pilot projects under the Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities program. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack telling a Senate budget hearing that USDA urgently needs to boost its staff levels--levels that have been depleted over several years.

Fruit growers in the Pacific Northwest may be worried about impacts from recent frost and sub-freezing temperatures. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

The Southern Plains continues to suffer in expanding dryness as triple digit heat has impacted parts of the region. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

Conditions continue to exacerbate firefighters' efforts to contain multiple fire complexes in the Desert Southwest. (Rod Bain and meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, discusses a fire complex in northeast New Mexico that is currently one of that state’s biggest wildfires in recorded history.

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, notes high pressure in the Southwest quadrant and near-to-below normal precipitation for most of the country for period of May 17 -23.