Radio Newsline

What is the connection between the nation’s biobased products industry and impacts to the U.S. economy? Some answers are provided via a recent USDA commissioned economic impact analysis. (Rod Bain and Rural Business Cooperative Service Administrator Betsy Dirksen-Londrigan)

Rural Business Cooperative Service Administrator Betsy Dirksen-Londrigan talks about the potential of the biobased product industry on rural economies, and how consumers can learn more about biobased products at ‘www.biopreferred.gov”.

Producers have until March 29th to enroll acreage in USDA’s General Conservation Reserve Program. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie)

Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie discuss aspects of the Conservation Reserve Program including the current General CRP sign-up underway through March 29th.

The first half of the history of the U.S. Forest Service included significant, yet perhaps unsung, contributions from women to the agency and our forests, according to one historian. (Rod Bain and Forest Service historian Rachel Kline)

U.S. Forest Service historian Rachel Kline offers examples of some women involved in development of the agency, and important components within it.

U.S. Forest Service historian Rachel Kline discusses women in the early years of the agency involved in efforts in teaching the public on the importance of our nation's forests and their protection.

A family dream and community connections are behind efforts to produce and promote coffee from Hawaii's Ka'u region, from the perspective of a mother-daughter coffee grower team. (Rod Bain and Joan Obra)

Hawaiian coffee producers and sellers, Lorie and Joan Obra, discuss their efforts to keep the dreams of Lorie's husband alive, and in the process, play a role in establishing the Ka'u district as a premiere coffee region.

USDA is helping producers affected by those catastrophic wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma. (Gary Crawford)