Radio Features

* - National Farm Safety and Health Week is September 15 – 21 - *

Multiple organizations with a focus on farm safety and health approach various aspects of this concern through education, resources, and awareness campaigns such as the annual National Farm Safety and Health Week. Rod Bain looks at some of the efforts to cultivate safety on the farm in this edition of “Agriculture USA”.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Dan Neenan of the National Education Center for Farm Safety. Scott Heiberger and Melissa Ploekelman of the National Farm Medicine Center.

It's an idea whose time has come---Getting more of our food from closer to our homes. Gary Crawford has more.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

What are some of the trends found in USDA's latest edition of its annual "Household Food Security in the U.S." study? Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Matthew Rabbitt of the Economic Research Service

What was behind the lower-than-expected hurricane totals during the summer half of the Atlantic hurricane season, and might there be increasing tropical storm activity in the Atlantic Basin this fall? Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey

When our children are frightened by the bad news they may hear, what can we say and do to help them? Gary Crawford has this report.


PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford and Bradford Wiles, Kansas State University Extension Child Development Specialist.

The nation’s sugar industry was among many in farm and food production finding innovative ways to distribute product during the height of the global pandemic, so what is their story? Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Luther Markhardt of the American Sugar Alliance

USDA is forecasting a cut in farm income for this year. Gary Crawford has more. '


PARTICIPANTS: (Gary Crawford. Spiro Stefanou, Administrator of USDA's Economic Research Service. Seth Meyer, USDA Chief Economist.

The final of four rounds of USDA Organic Market Development Grants were recently awarded to recipient projects, in efforts to build market opportunities for organic products. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt

USDA's Farm Service Agency recently provided this fiscal year's acreage enrollment numbers for the Conservation Reserve Program. Rod Bain reports.


PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and FSA Acting Deputy Administrator John Berge

Recent funding application announcements coincided with the first project application batching dates for a USDA easement conservation program set for the upcoming fiscal year. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Karen Woodrich of the Natural Resources Conservation Service

* - National Farm Safety and Health Week 2024 is September 15 – 21 - *

This year’s National Farm Safety and Health Week features the theme of don’t learn safety by accident, yet there is a caveat to that. Rod Bain reports.

PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain and Dan Neenan of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety