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An old USDA program may help the U.S. reach a new environmental goal. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

There's one fact about the U.S./China agricultural trade relationship that may surprise you. (Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The southeast quadrant of the county could face another round of heavy rains, thunderstorms and perhaps tornadoes over the last two days of March. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)

What were some of the impacts of another severe weather outbreak in parts of the Southeast over the past weekend? (Rod Bain and USDA, meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, discusses the flooding in parts of Tennessee caused by a severe weather outbreak this weekend.

Markets are anxiously awaiting release shortly of USDA's Prospective Plantings report. (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service) ***Report to be released Wed. March 31, Noon EDT***

Lance Honig, Chief of the Crops Branch of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, saying that USDA is about to release its Grain stocks report, along with the Prospective Plantings report. (Wednesday, March 31, Noon EDT)

Preliminary estimates have one dozen tornadoes and a half-dozen fatalities resulting from tornado activity across parts of the Southeast Thursday. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey talks about a series of tornadic events this month including a Thursday outbreak in the Southeast.

* - ATTN: STATIONS - This event is expected to take place late Saturday and into Sunday - * Parts of the country, particularly the Southeast, are bracing for potential tornado activity throughout the weekend. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)