The agriculture road improvement program has been in place for over a year.  The goal - improving the states rural infrastructure.  How's it doing?  Kiley Allan follows up with John DesRivieres, Director of Communications at the WI Dept. of Transportation.  He says the program has been overwhelmingly popular with farmers and their community leaders.  DesRivieres says while some projects are complete, many more are underway.  DesRivieres also says they're accepting more applications for the next round of funding.

A little less heat today, but dry weather remains.  Stu Muck says there's not much rain on the horizon for those fields freshly planted.

While America celebrates its 250th anniversary, USDA is also celebrating about 100 years of providing news content focused on farming and rural America.  Rod Bain kicks of a series that takes a look back at how communicating with the nation's farmers and rural residents has changed.

April milk production figures came in a little stronger than initially expected according to Ryan Yonkman with EverAg.  Yonkman tells Pam Jahnke that one story getting a little attention is how much dairy might be consumed connect to FIFA World Cup games in the East.