Radio Features

Changes take effect next month within the Farm Service Agency's Farm Loan Programs - changed designed to improve borrower financial flexibility. Rod Bain looks at these proposed changes in this edition of “Agriculture USA”.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux

An expert has some suggestions for making sure that brown bag school lunch doesn't make your child sick. Gary Crawford has more.

PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Meredith Carothers with USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline.

****Broadcasters: The USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline number is 888-MPHOTLINE(888-674-6854)Listeners can also go online to Ask.usda.gov***

Coffee is as very hot commodity, even during this record hot summer. Gary Crawford brews up this report.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Coffee grower and marketer, Arondo Holmes. Karen Blakeslee, extension educator with Kansas State University. Coffee fan, Kara Crawford.

USDA is part of a working group implementing a five-year strategy to fight an invasive pest harmful to grapes and other crops. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Matt Travis of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Scammers are using phones and every other electronic means to get hold of our money. Gary Crawford has a report on how to defeat these scammers.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Barbara Stockebrand, Kansas State University Extension educator. Classic comedian, W.C. Fields.

An expert says take care of your brain. It's the only one you've got. Gary Crawford has expert advice on how to boost your brain.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Sharolyn Jackson, with Kansas State University Extension.

A new USDA report shows that U..S. agricultual exports are still running below what they were a year ago. Gary Crawford has more.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and USDA economist, Bart Kenner.

Changes take effect next month within the Farm Service Agency's Farm Loan Programs - changed designed to improve borrower financial flexibility. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux

What did ag producers pay last year for farm production expenditures? And what was the breakdown of such expenditures by various categories? Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and National Agricultural Statistics Service Administrator Joseph Parsons.

Ag export stakeholders interested in USDA’s Regional Agricultural Promotion Program now have until early October to apply for the latest round of project funding. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Foreign Agricultural Service Deputy Administrator Mark Slupek

The inclusion of data sets previously part of fall time USDA crop production forecasts resulted in some interesting information in the August report. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Chief Economist Seth Meyer