Articles Tagged with ''Brooke Rollins''

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service officials will be discussing the bird flu outbreak with state officials and industry stakeholders today. The call comes after Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart.com that vaccines were “off the table,” leading to questions about whether vaccination would still be part of the administration’s bird flu strategy.

Lawmakers face a deadline of this Friday to avoid a government shutdown. But the partisan impasse over how to keep departments and agencies funded has yet to be resolved. 

President Donald Trump has kicked the Mexico and Canada tariff can further down the road for potash and other imports following a pressure campaign from prominent ag figures.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday she hopes services have not been disrupted due to the termination of leases for Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service offices. And, speaking of impending tariffs on trade partners, she told farmers that they should trust President Donald Trump.

With farmers across the country concerned about losing workers to mass deportations, there are renewed calls for reforming the H-2A visa system. To that end, House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., tells Agri-Pulse he plans to introduce legislation that would put into law recommendations made by a committee task force in the last Congress.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins is making some bold promises that rural America will boom again as the result of President Donald Trump’s policies.

Snowpack survey * UFW sues Border Patrol * Garamendi talks ag issues * Rollins: We’ll unleash rural ‘prosperity’

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday laid out some broad details of the $10 billion in market relief for row crop producers that’s due out by March 21, asserting that the U.S. farm economy is “perhaps the worst it's been in 100 years.”

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday she hopes to beat the March 21 deadline set by Congress for distributing $31 billion in economic relief and disaster aid payments. She also promised that farmers would be “made whole” for financial losses from new trade wars. 

Amid rising egg prices, USDA will invest $1 billion to combat the avian flu through a multi-pronged approach but will not authorize a vaccine at this time.