The Department of Agriculture announced it is using $2.7 billion from the Commodity Credit Corporation and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says expanding rural broadband is going to be top of mind for him in the upcoming farm bill. All that and more in today’s DriveTime.

Senate appropriators offered a look at their plans to fund USDA and FDA today, and there's a big gap between them and their House counterparts. Hear the latest on that and more in today's DriveTime.

It was a busy day in farm policy, and DriveTime has the latest on cultivated meat production, biofuel blending targets, and USDA's efforts to secure a diverse workforce for agriculture's future. 

Drought is having a measurable impact on the nation's row crop production. Hear more on that and the state of farm bill deliberations in today's DriveTime.

Today’s DriveTime discusses comments that were made at a USDA pre-hearing information session on federal milk marketing order reform and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, shares his thoughts on Mexico’s ban on genetically modified corn. 

U.S. farm groups are welcoming news of a deal to stabilize the labor situation on West Coast ports. Hear more on that and an assessment on the current state of American trade policy from a top official in today's DriveTime.