Radio Newsline

It's a speedy planting season so far this year. (Gary Crawford and USDA Chief Meteorologist Mark Brusberg).

USDA this month used new data for both domestic and international soybean production to adjust both outlooks for supply and demand. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

Small changes were made to both USDA’s domestic and global supply and demand estimates for rice this month. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski discusses month over month changes in USDA's domestic rice supply and demand estimates.

There was at least one notable change in both USDA's domestic and world cotton supply and demand estimates this month despite little to no changes reported. (Rod Bain and World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski)

As the spring planting season begins and winter wheat starts to develop, USDA is involved in a huge weekly undertaking that brings us every Monday a look at planting progress and crop development (Gary Crawford and Lance Honig,with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Lance Honig with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service saying that the weekly crop progress report is as near to real time crop information as you can get. (The "reporters" he refers to are the people across the country who provide crop progress data each week to USDA.)

Price prospects for several major crops are not improving--in fact, just the opposite. (Gary Crawford)

What impacts did USDA's March grains and rice stocks reports have when April's domestic supply and demand estimate was issued Thursday? (Rod Bain and Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer discusses how extreme dryness in both Mexico and South Africa is playing a role in lower corn production forecasts for those nations.