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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)

Projects in Nevada and Kentucky are the latest to receive funding under USDA’s Powering Affordable Clean Energy program. (Rod Bain and Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small)

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Xochitl Torres Small discusses some of the USDA Rural Development programs designed to support energy and electricity production and availability in rural areas.

Significant increases in U.S. Drought Monitor coverage nationally and by category were noted over the month of August. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)