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President Donald Trump’s tariffs faced tough questions at the Supreme Court yesterday.

The agriculture industry is sounding the alarm over any potential EPA delays in finishing biofuel-blending rules this year, arguing that a lag would further hurt financially strapped soybean farmers.

The government shutdown heads toward a new crisis point this week with the potential lapse in SNAP benefits, and President Donald Trump is in Asia for meetings that are scheduled to include his face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Several Trump nominees of particular importance to food and agriculture policy have hearings on Capitol Hill.

Duda Farm Fresh Foods hired Laura Lutjen as Midwest regional sales manager. John Hollay has been tapped as the next president and chief executive officer of the National Council of Agricultural Employers. Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte hired Christian Bray as a natural resources policy adviser. Natural Resource Results LLC hired David Brooks as a government affairs professional. 

A bipartisan group of senators is challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration underpinning his “reciprocal” tariffs on almost every U.S. trading partner.

President Donald Trump says the U.S., Canada and Mexico could “renegotiate” The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, also known as USMCA…or “do different deals.”

It was shutdown day at USDA, and the few workers at headquarters in Washington, D.C., were wrapping up office work in preparation for an indefinite leave of absence.

A lawsuit filed by Texas farmers against EPA over the contamination of PFAS chemicals in sewage sludge, a common fertilizer, was dismissed by a federal judge on Monday. 

President Donald Trump will meet this afternoon with House and Senate leaders about avoiding a government shutdown.

The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday confirmed three new undersecretaries for USDA, Richard Fordyce, Dudley Hoskins and Scott Hutchins.