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Two types of grants are now available for rural communities and health care centers to strengthen existing and add new care offerings and facilities. (Rod Bain and Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary Justin Maxson)

Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary Justin Maxson discusses two types of grants now available for rural emergency healthcare facilities through application.

USDA is currently conducting a survey of livestock producers about their problems with feral swine. Survey results could help in the fight against African Swine Fever. (Gary Crawford. Travis Averill with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Sophia McKee with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)

A tropical depression could reach landfall in Florida on Saturday and could restrengthen as a tropical storm. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

Retail prices for fresh fruit are coming down, but are still considerably higher than one year ago. (Gary Crawford and USDA economist, Carolyn Chelius)

The Agriculture Secretary Wednesday announced project funding supporting rural broadband expansion under USDA's ReConnect Program. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack provides examples among projects in twelve states recently awarded funding through the second round of USDA's ReConnect program.

How are various farm and rural cooperative representatives reacting to announced funding for rural broadband expansion and lawmaker efforts to provide more? (Rod Bain. Jim Matheson of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Dale Moore of the America Farm Bureau Federation. Shirley Bloomfield of the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association.)

What kind of damage have feral swine done to your livestock operation? That's one of the questions USDA is asking in a 13-state producer survey. (Gary Crawford. Travis Averill with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Sophia McKee with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)

Travis Averill, Chief of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Livestock Branch, saying that in the current feral swine damage survey, as in all USDA surveys, producer responses will be confidential and not linked to any one person.