Ag Trade Groups Eye 'Long Overdue' Opportunities From EU Trade Deal The European Union has long maintained an agricultural trade surplus with the U.S., but agricultural groups are optimistic after the Trump administration tied tariffs on European autos to opening up m...

US-EU Framework Backs More Ag Access
Ag Trade Groups Eye 'Long Overdue' Opportunities From EU Trade Deal

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Trump Adviser to MAHA: Attack The Deep State, Not Kennedy, Trump An adviser to President Trump and an activist in the Make America Healthy Again movement said there is a deep state in agriculture that must be rooted out, but MAHA can't afford to make enemies of cor...

MAHA and Regenerative Ag

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President Trump Continues to Pressure Trading Partners, But Ag Exports Are Slipping President Donald Trump has detailed a new round of tariffs going into effect this month, including higher tariffs on products from Canada. Meanwhile, U.S. agricultural export sales continue to slip fr...

Keeping Score on Trump's Tariffs
President Trump Continues to Pressure Trading Partners, But Ag Exports Are Slipping

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EU Trade Deal Could Unlock Stalled Ag Exports, But Barriers Remain In announcing the deal, the White House noted the agreement with the EU includes an effort to remove non-tariff barriers for U.S. agriculture exports. Non-tariff barriers, including some favorite Euro...

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House Ag Holds Hearing on MAHA Threat, Future of Crop Protection Tools The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on Tuesday addressing statements by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about crop protection tools as well as legislation that cou...

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Farmers and Lenders Call for FSA Loan Reforms to Meet Current Ag Needs Congress will look to make some adjustments to USDA's loan programs when lawmakers get around to writing several sections of the farm bill. Farmers and agricultural lenders offered similar demands for...

Updating FSA Loans in the Farm Bill
Farmers and Lenders Call for FSA Loan Reforms to Meet Current Ag Needs

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Trump Sparks a Coca-Cola Soda Reformulation Debate Over Cane Sugar v Corn Syrup President Donald Trump claims Coca-Cola will use cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. Coca-Cola hints at innovation while the Corn Refiners Association warns of job losses, a decline in the...

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Trump Sparks a Coca-Cola Soda Reformulation Debate Over Cane Sugar v Corn Syrup

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USDA Shuts Down Regional Food Business Centers Created Under Biden Administration Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday announced USDA would terminate the Regional Food Business Centers created under the Biden administration. USDA said the Biden administration created pro...

USDA Shuts Down Regional Food Business Centers Created Under Biden Administration

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Groups Weigh Options After USDA Rescinds $1 Billion in Regional Conservation Grants In June, USDA canceled more than $1 billion in conservation grants to nearly 70 groups under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Some groups are appealing USDA's decision. Meanwhile, other ...

USDA Cuts Hit RCPP Grant Projects
Groups Weigh Options After USDA Rescinds $1 Billion in Regional Conservation Grants

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USDA Ends Programs, Policies Supporting 'Socially Disadvantaged' Farmers and Ranchers USDA published a final rule Thursday in the Federal Register announcing the end of preferences for race or gender. The rule is effective immediately.

USDA Ends Programs, Policies Supporting 'Socially Disadvantaged' Farmers and Ranchers
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USDA Opens up Natural Disaster Aid for Crop Farmers Who Faced 2023, 2024 Losses USDA has opened up enrollment for the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), which will provide aid to crop farmers who suffered losses in 2023 and 2024 due to natural disasters. The first stage...

USDA Opens up Natural Disaster Aid for Crop Farmers Who Faced 2023, 2024 Losses
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Rollins Says No Amnesty for Farmworkers, But Medicaid Recipients Could Fill the Void At a news conference on Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there will be no legal amnesty for undocumented farmworkers. Instead, Rollins suggested unemployed people on Medicaid could f...

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Rollins Says No Amnesty for Farmworkers, But Medicaid Recipients Could Fill the Void

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Trump Administration Unveils Plan to Ban Chinese Ownership of US Farmland and Ag U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins led a team of other Cabinet officials, Republican governors and members of Congress at USDA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to announce a new N...

USDA Secretary Targets Chinese Ag Ties
Trump Administration Unveils Plan to Ban Chinese Ownership of US Farmland and Ag

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Trump Administration Unveils Plan to Ban Chinese Ownership of US Farmland and Ag U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins led a team of other Cabinet officials, Republican governors and members of Congress at USDA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to announce a new N...

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President Points to Wins for Farmers, Historic Tax Cuts at America250 Rally in Iowa President Donald Trump spoke for more than an hour before a crowd of thousands as he highlighted a historic win with the passage of the legislation and he dismissed criticisms from Democrats and other...

Trump Takes a Victory Lap in Iowa

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Farmers Win Better Safety Net, Permanent Tax Cuts in 'One Big Beautiful Bill' After years of facing a declining safety net under the 2018 farm bill, the 2025 budget reconciliation package boosts spending for farm programs. The bill also includes a mix of tax provisions that far...

Farm Bill Wins, Tax Cuts: What to Know

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Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Clears Senate, Sending it Back to House With the vice president breaking a tie Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to pass President Donald Trump's tax-and-spending bill. The bill makes permanent some of President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and exten...

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Clears Senate, Sending it Back to House

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Congresswoman Says Farmworker Immigration Reform is Possible, But Senate Must Lead Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., explained to DTN in an interview that she remains optimistic a bill can get through Congress even if leaders in key House committees continue to be roadblocks. But after th...

Congresswoman Says Farmworker Immigration Reform is Possible, But Senate Must Lead

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Ag Secretary Moves to Rescind 'Roadless Rule' on Forest Service Lands Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the 2001 rule prohibits the Forest Service from responsibly thinning and maintaining the nation's forests. Speaking to the Western Governors Association, Roll...

Ag Secretary Moves to Rescind 'Roadless Rule' on Forest Service Lands

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One Big Beautiful Bill Could Shutter More Rural Hospitals Without Some Fix After the Senate Finance Committee released its tax provisions for the massive budget reconciliation package, groups such as the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) sounded the alarm. Medical gro...

One Big Beautiful Bill Could Shutter More Rural Hospitals Without Some Fix

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Ag and Business Groups Struggle Over Trump Administration Reversal on Immigration Raids The American Business Immigration Coalition, including groups representing farmers, raised new concerns about the Trump administration's quick policy reversal when it comes to raids on farms and other...

Ag Groups, Others Call for Labor Reform

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Federal Court Orders Agridime to Pay $103 Million Restitution in Cattle Ponzi Scheme The CFTC brought the case against Texas-based Agridime, which had recruited more than 2,100 investors to buy cattle contracts claiming guaranteed profits. When the company was shut down by court order...

Federal Court Orders Agridime to Pay $103 Million Restitution in Cattle Ponzi Scheme

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Senate Ag Reconciliation Bill Offers Farmers Better Options for 2025 Programs The Senate plan cuts $211 billion from nutrition over 10 years, a little less than the House bill, but also provides $67 billion for farm programs, which is more than the House bill. The plan would en...

Senate Ag's One Big Beautiful Bill Plan

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Lawmakers Try to Prevent USDA From Closing ARS Labs in Their States Lawmakers have raised concerns about closing Agricultural Research Service (ARS) laboratories in California, Delaware and Illinois. The Illinois lab includes programs focusing on soybean germplasm and...

Lawmakers Try to Prevent USDA From Closing ARS Labs in Their States

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Fired FTC Commissioner Sees Ag Market Challenges, Concern Over Political Interference Former FTC member Alvaro Bedoya visited a farm on Saturday in central Iowa at a forum hosted by the Iowa Farmers Union. Participants painted a stark picture of the economic forces squeezing small prod...

Fired FTC Commissioner Sees Ag Market Challenges, Concern Over Political Interference

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DOGE Pares List of USDA Agency Office Closures and Savings Nationally In March, DOGE had listed at least 110 USDA offices across nine agencies that would face canceled leases, amounting to an estimated $59.3 million in contract savings, according to DOGE. Now, the DOGE ...

DOGE USDA Office Cuts Not as Steep

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USDA Budget Plan Slashes Conservation Technical Assistance and NRCS Staff The cut to Conservation Technical Assistance is just one of nearly $7 billion in budget cuts USDA has proposed, but cutting technical assistance would create a ripple effect across USDA's broader cons...

USDA Budget Cuts and Conservation
USDA Budget Plan Slashes Conservation Technical Assistance and NRCS Staff

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Budget Reconciliation Bill Offers Limited Safety Net Boost for Corn and Soybean Farmers The lion's share of debate in the budget reconciliation package will continue to focus on Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cuts, as well as individual tax provisions, but ...

Corn and Soybean Safety Net Falls Short

Budget Reconciliation Bill Offers Limited Safety Net Boost for Corn and Soybean Farmers

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Judge Rejects Landowner Claim That USDA Swampbuster Rule is Unjust Taking of Property A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa rejected a case brought by an Iowa landowner who was challenging USDA's wetland determinations over nine acres of ground. The land...

Judge Rejects Landowner Claim That USDA Swampbuster Rule is Unjust Taking of Property

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