Radio Newsline Archive

What are among the recently announced updates to USDA guidelines for both animal-raising and environmental-related claims found on meat and poultry labels? (Rod Bain and Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Sandra Eskin)

Deputy Under Secretary Sandra Eskin discusses the increase in animal-raising and environmental-related claims on labels for meat and poultry products, and how USDA oversees such labeling efforts.

Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Sandra Eskin explains reasons behind USDA's recent updates to guidelines for meat and poultry product labels with animal-raising or environmental-related claims.

Much of the West continues to have adequate to good water storage levels after an extremely hot and dry summer, although some exceptions remain. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at water storage levels for the eleven states within the Western U.S. coming off the spring and summer irrigation season.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at California's water reservoir storage coming off an extremely hot and dry summer period.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at water storage on the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers - both at below normal levels.

USDA is using data visualization to better understand crop sequence boundaries, using geospatial data and images to do so. (Rod Bain and Tara Murphy of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

The Agricultural Marketing Service is relying more on data visualization tools to present information on livestock markets to data users. (Rod Bain. Levi Geyer and Bucky Gwartney of USDA - AMS)