Radio Newsline Archive

Big Production Pushes India to be the World's Largest Rice Exporter

00:00:59.977 2021-10-13

Big rice production is pushing India to the number one spot in terms of global rice exporters. (Stephanie Ho. WAOB Chair Mark Jekanowski. USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

Consumer Price Index Shows a "Significant" Rise in Food Prices

00:00:59.271 2021-10-13

Retail food prices continue to rise at an unusually rapid rate. (Gary Crawford and Carolyn Chelius, USDA economist)

A Long Run of Meat Price Hikes and a Long Run by a USDA Economist

00:01:00.107 2021-10-13

Meat product prices are on a little bit of a marathon run-up and so is a USDA economist who tracks retail food prices. (Gary Crawford and Carolyn Chelius, USDA economist)

USDA To Conduct First Hemp Grower Survey in at Least 64 Years

00:00:58.226 2021-10-13

USDA is about to do its first comprehensive survey of U.S. hemp growers in at least six decades. (Gary Crawford. Gerald Tillman with USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Bill Richmond with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service)

Actuality: Why USDA's Hemp Survey Will Be Vital to Hemp Industry

00:00:43.885 2021-10-13

Bill Richmond, Chief of Hemp Programs in USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, giving reasons why this first USDA survey of hemp growers is so important.