Articles Tagged with ''Brooke Rollins''

The holiday season is in full swing and 2025 in the final stretch as lawmakers and the Trump administration face a bundle of unfinished agriculture business. This includes key biofuel issues and financial relief for crop growers hurt by tariffs. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has said an announcement on a support package for farmers is imminent and could land at soon as this week.

Senate Republican leadership is assembling one more package of Trump administration nominees for a floor vote this year.

The Trump administration's demands for state data to carry out its investigation of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are meeting resistance both from Democratic-led states and from Democrats in Congress. State officials also are puzzled by estimates USDA has released. 

All 12 million tons of China’s soybean purchase target do not have to ship by the Dec. 31 deadline. So says Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s classification of commonly used weedkiller atrazine as “probably carcinogenic to humans” prompted a quick response from the herbicide’s supporters and critics.

House and Senate Democrats strongly criticized the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for attacks on SNAP as they announced legislation to undo cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

China bought fewer U.S. soybeans than initially expected, according to revised Agriculture Department data on recent Chinese soybean purchases.

The Trump administration says it has a deal with Switzerland that lowers agricultural trade barriers, particularly for beef and poultry.

Both the Senate and House are back at work this week with a backlog of unfinished business and fallout from the government shutdown to tackle.

A Commerce Ministry spokesperson refused to confirm that Chinese purchase commitments of U.S. soybeans were part of a trade deal agreed to late last month.