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In our fourth episode, Gal Hochman, C-FARE Board Chair, and Jane Kolodinsky, C-FARE Board Member, met with Peyton Ferrier and Jeff Neff, USDA Economists Group president and Immediate Past President. The episode discusses the USDA Economists Group and its key activities. Join us for this podcast to learn more about the USDA Economists Group.

In our third episode, Gal Hochman, C-FARE Board Chair, and Jane Kolodinsky, Board Member, interview Terry Cosby, Chief of the National Resources Conversation Services (NRCS). This podcast discusses how the NRCS provides financial assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers and offers conservation planning for farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners wanting to make conservation improvements to their land.

In our second episode, Gal Hochman, C-FARE Board Chair, and Jane Kolodinsky, Board Member, interview Kevin Barnes, Acting Administrator of USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This interview discusses how NASS manages and collects data, adapts to the current situation, and what the future holds.

In our first episode, Gal Hochman, C-FARE Board Chair, and Jane Kolodinsky, Board Member, interview Spiro E. Stefanou, Acting Administrator of USDA ERS. This interview comes after several years of drastic changes to ERS, including its move to Kansas City, which caused many of its employees to exit. In this interview, we wanted to learn more about how ERS adapts and changes to its current situation and what its future holds.