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Meredith Carothers, food safety expert with the USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline, outlining several ways you can get Super Bowl food safety questions answered live by real experts.

USDA is keeping tabs on how shipping constraints in the Red Sea are affecting grain shipments. (Gary Crawford and USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski) ***USDA will issue its new Ag. Supply and Demand forecasts Thursday at noon EST***

If you fumble the food safety ball when cooking up some of those Super Bowl foods, the penalty could be a bout with food poisoning. (Gary Crawford and Meredith Carothers) ****Broadcasters: The USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline number is 888-MPHOTLINE(888-674-6854) Listeners can also go online to Ask...

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey notes some of the weather impacts associated with a recent series of heavy rains in Southern California.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey covers some recent concerns about mountain snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada range - concerns perhaps alleviating due to heavy higher elevation snowfall the first days of February.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey discusses a series of storm events common during El Nino climate patterns - systems passing over California over the past week.

It is a mixed bag of weather impacts associated with an El Nino related weather phenomenon traveling though the Southern half of the Golden State. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says near to below normal temperatures and precipitation are expected in much of the country for the period of February 13 - 19.

An unusual warm spell continues for some winter wheat growing areas, making producers weary about potential impacts from cold weather to crops slowly coming out of dormancy. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

Alan Cruz is a senior at University of Arizona in Yuma studying agricultural systems management. He was recently named a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Future Leader in Agriculture and will be attending USDA’s 100th annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C., held February 15-16...