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The Agriculture Secretary announced an upcoming webinar focused on a newly announced remote beef grading pilot program. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service explains how USDA grading services are user fee driven and how this may be cost prohibitive for smaller sized meat processing facilities.

Jennifer Porter of the Agricultural Marketing Service discusses training efforts and relationships between USDA graders and meat processing facilities involved in a recently announced remote beef grading pilot program.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack discusses a 2023 feasibility study that provided the impetus for a recently announced remote beef grading pilot program.

The Agriculture Secretary says a new pilot program gives small-sized beef processing facilities opportunity for their products to receive USDA grading. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Our nation's lands are vital to providing clean water, fish and wildlife habitat, sustainable wood, minerals, energy, jobs and places for Americans to enjoy the outdoors. USDA’s Forest Service is responsible for managing 193 million acres of grasslands and forests. For rural America to thrive, we...

Last month at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, the global message was clear: agriculture is a key solution to tackling climate change.

USDA scientists have discovered that the spotted lanternfly, an invasive threat to fruit crops and many trees, may have an Achilles heel – an attraction to vibration.

Shayle Shagam, USDA livestock analyst, saying that at the end of this month we'll get a cattle inventory report which may have clues as to what to expect in the beef cattle market over the next year.

Beef markets are eagerly awaiting two upcoming USDA cattle reports. (Gary Crawford and USDA livestock analyst, Shayle Shagam)