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Narrator (Susan Carter) : Secretary Vilsack was at a Baltimore school promoting expansion of the summer meals programs for low income children. Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary: Seventeen million youngsters in this country today live in food insecure homes. Through no fault of theirs and through no fault of mom and dad they live in a home where at the end of the month there just simply may not be enough to adequately feed the family.
Narrator: Baltimore Ravens football player Chris Canty joined the effort despite Secretary Vilsack's rooting interests.
Chris Canty, Baltimore Ravens: And while I'm not crazy about coming together in any team initiatives with Pittsburgh Steelers fans like Secretary Vilsack, when we're all talking about coming together to invest in our children everybody wins.
Narrator: USDA hopes to increase school and summer meals by ten million.
Narrator: Three of this year's World Cup soccer fields used turf developed by USDA's Agricultural Research Service and the University of Georgia. Retired Tifton Georgia A-R-S researcher and U-G-A professor Wayne Hannah helped develop Tifgrand turf.
Wayne Hannah, USDA ARS (Ret.): Basically we produce a hybrid that's produced on a similar principle that a mule is produced. We cross basically two different species and our grasses are tough because they combine the best characteristics from two different species.
Narrator: Tifgrand turf is designed to be shade tolerant and extremely wear resistant.
Narrator: USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service was saluted for its efforts to help American agriculture and the U-S economy. During the F-A-S global conference, Secretary Vilsack acknowledged belt tightening at U-S-D-A, but that the Foreign Ag Service had persevered.
Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary: There is a real concerted effort to try to figure out how we continue to do the important work of the Foreign Ag Service with limited resources and what a great job you all have done. And no group of foreign ag service personnel has ever done a better job of exports than the current crew here at U-S-D-A.
Narrator: U-S-D-A projects that Fiscal Year 2014 agricultural exports will reach 149 and half billion dollars, which is 6.9 billion dollars higher than previous estimates. That would be a new record for American agricultural exports. That's all for "U-S-D-A Week In Review". Follow, tweet, and stay informed at U-S-D-A dot-gov. | 
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