The outgoing Deputy Secretary leaves after four years of service in what he calls the best job he has had in his long career. (Rod Bain and Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner)
A new economic stimulus package may include more money to bring high speed internet service to rural areas, an effort strongly supported by the new Agriculture Secretary nominee, Tom Vilsack.
Livestock producers in many northern areas are struggling to reduce stress to their animals and keep them going through some record cold temperatures.
( Gary Crawford, Mark Brusberg and Charlie Stoltenow)
There is no treatment for frostbite when it hits livestock and producers in the north are doing what they can to protect their animals from record cold. ( Gary Crawford and Charlie Stoltenow)
From record snow accumulations, to flooding, to above normal temperatures and dry conditions, the Pacific Northwest has seen a wild change in weather in recent weeks. (Rod Bain and USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey)
USDA researchers in Florida appear to have created new cultivars of sugar cane grown in sandy soils that will result in improved yields. (Rod Bain and Barry Glaz of the Agricultural Research Service Sugarcane Field Station)
Barry Glaz of the Agricultural Research Service's Sugarcane Field Station talks about what led to the latest work in developing sugar cane cultivars grown in sandy soils.
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