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Specialty crop growers whose 2025 crops were impacted by input costs or natural disasters still have time to apply for a USDA assistance program. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce)
How did growing season weather play an outcoming to the size of this year's national strawberry crop? (Rod Bain and USDA research economist Helen Wakefield)
What do particular crop and commodity growing areas across the country look like regarding drought coverage per the latest U.S. Drought Monitor? (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at national drought coverage including abnormal dryness (D-Zero) and in the extreme to exceptional drought (D-3 and D-4) range.
The Agriculture Secretary in recent days announced the next efforts to control and eradicate New World Screwworm in our country, with a location in the Grand Canyon State the focal point. (Rod Bain and Secretary Brooke Rollins)
The last U.S. Drought Monitor for this July indicates little activity across the country, but some notable changes in parts of the nation. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)