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Whether a day trip or a camping adventure, the U.S. Forest Service provides resources for us to prepare for our visit to forests, parks, and day-use sites. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Toby Bloom of the U.S. Forest Service

Enjoying outdoor cookouts in the summer should include food safety considerations for backyard chefs. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers

The arrival of the Rural Electrification Act could not have come at a more needed time in rural America history - the midst of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Yet this legislation not only turned the lights and power on in rural towns and counties, through the agency created by this Act -...

USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers explains the importance of using a food thermometer when grilling meats to assure proper internal temperatures and food safe from food borne bacteria.

Knowing how long to safely keep perishable foods out in room or outside temperatures will ensure a summer cookout where foodborne bacteria is not invited. (Rod Bain and USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers)

The ninetieth anniversary of the Rural Electrification Act serves as a reminder about the additional infrastructures that USDA's Rural Utilities Services support in rural communities and counties across America. (Rod Bain and RUS Administrator Karl Elmshaeuser)

Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt talks about how producers and landowners can apply for the ag land easement program through NRCS's Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt explains part of the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program that focuses on such easements on agricultural lands.

Applications are being accepted through May 29th for a USDA agricultural land easement conservation program. (Rod Bain and Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt)

Lance Honig of the National Agricultural Statistics Service reminds hog producers of upcoming USDA surveys used to compile the June Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report.