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A USDA grant program focused on local agriculture markets and the many ways they promote local food production and economic opportunity recently announced a grant application period for three of its offerings. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Agricultural Marketing Service Deputy...

With recent concerns about capabilities of domestic fertilizer production, access to supply chains, and input prices now paid by growers, the Agriculture Department along with federal, research, and private partners recently announced steps underway and that will be taken soon to addressing these...

The Agricultural Marketing Service's Lonnie Peetz provides an example of how stocker and feeder cattle industry stakeholders can use a new USDA dashboard to obtain both historical and market level information.

Lonnie Peetz of the Agricultural Marketing Service explains the classifications of stocker and feeder cattle, and how they apply to the beef industry.

A new USDA dashboard is available for those in the stocker and feeder cattle segments of the cattle industry to obtain data to make both immediate and long-term decisions. (Rod Bain and Lonnie Peetz of the Agricultural Marketing Service)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey offers an outlook of drought's extent and location during the summer months.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey discusses what predominant weather conditions ag producers could face this summer in various parts of the country.

What weather conditions are forecasted for parts of the country this summer and what could this mean for growing crops? (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

Most livestock sector producers saw a rise in what they received pricewise in March - the catalyst in an increase in prices received by ag producers in total in USDA's most recent Agricultural Prices report. (Rod Bain)