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Lori Stevermer, president of the National Pork Producers Council, testified before the U.S. Senate Ag Committee on the state of the U.S. agricultural economy. Stevermer highlighted the top pork industry issue, California’s Prop 12, a state regulation posing an “existential threat” to all of U.S. agriculture. “We must fix the problems caused by Prop 12,…… MORE
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Farmland Security Act of 2025 to help safeguard rural communities and protect American farmland from being secretly bought by foreign investors. The bipartisan legislation will build on current law to ensure that all foreign investors, including “shell companies” who buy American agricultural land, report their…… MORE
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins unveils a $1 billion-dollar comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza. The goal is to protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices. According to USDA the five-pronged strategy includes an additional $500 million for biosecurity measures, $400 million in financial relief for affected farmers, and $100…… MORE
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The Bureau of Reclamation’s initial allocation for California farmers on the west side of the Central Valley south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta is more than twice what the initial allocation was in 2024, a year with similar hydrology, according to a news release. In addition, the Bureau of Reclamation says the Trump administration is…… MORE
The Ag Department recently announced it will release approximately $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that had been frozen by the Trump administration’s push to overhaul the federal government according to the agency. The sum represents a tiny sliver of program funding the USDA suspended after the White House’s broad freeze of federal loans and…… MORE
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Brooke Rollins won confirmation as the new Secretary of Agriculture by a 72-28 Senate vote. She also becomes only the second woman to lead the agency. The 52-year-old Texan was Trump’s domestic policy chief in his first term and recently headed a Trump-aligned think tank. Rollins recently said she hopes to see an ag trade deficit turn…… MORE