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With a legal lens and knack for paying attention to detail, Equity Commission Member Charles (Charlie) Rawls has been the go-to source to help capture the essence of the Equity Commission’s intentions. With his firsthand experience working on civil rights reforms at the Department of Agriculture as...

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.)

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)

USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski with comments on stronger U.S. rice exports.

USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski talking about world wheat trade and season ending stocks forecast.

USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski saying that more corn is going into ethanol production than was previously projected.