Radio Newsline

The Agriculture Department and land grant universities collaborate on a program designed to give high school students opportunities to learn about potential ag science careers. (Rod Bain and Kiara McCallister)

USDA Plant Health Safeguarding Specialist Kiara McCallister discusses her involvement in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's Pathways Program and its various offerings in route to her current occupation.

USDA has lowered production expectations for corn, cotton and soybeans. (Gary Crawford)

How did markets initially respond to USDA’s latest crop production report reflecting lower yields for both corn and soybeans? (Rod Bain and Chief Economist Seth Meyer)

USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer discusses increased month-over-month forecasts of soybean oil used in biodiesel, per the October domestic supply and demand ledger.

The first production forecasts are in for the 2023-24 orange season, so what do the numbers look like for the country, and major growing states? (Rod Bain and Mark Hudson of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)

Food price inflation is easing down into so-called "normal" levels. (Gary Crawford and Megan Sweitzer, USDA economist)

Megan Sweitzer, USDA economist, compares the "All Food" price inflation rate to that of the total economy.

Megan Sweitzer, USDA economist, with a review of the current USDA food price forecasts.

Requests from farmers are one major reason for the recent rapid expansion of crop insurance programs for specialty crop producers. (Gary Crawford and Marcia Bunger, Administrator of USDA's Risk Management Agency)