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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2017 - President Donald Trump has promised to announce a Supreme Court nominee this week, while Congress begins to move measures to kill new regulations on the energy industry.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2017 - Talks have already begun about how to put together a trade agreement between the U.S. and UK, British Prime Minister Theresa May said today at a joint press conference with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2017 – President Donald Trump today signed two new executive actions to boost immigration enforcement – including an order to begin construction of the promised wall -- but that has some in the farming sector on edge because of the industry’s reliance on foreign labor.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 - Top political experts who were assembled on stage at the National Biodiesel Board’s annual meeting last week offered a mixed bag of perspectives on what to expect in the new Trump administration and the 115th Congress.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 - The Trump administration is considering a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to finance a border wall and that has U.S. farm groups worrying about retaliation and possibly losing a major foreign market for rice, wheat, dairy, pork and many other ag commodities.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2017 – Whether it’s whistling in the dark or confidence based on past achievements and bipartisan Senate support, one biofuels policy insider expects biodiesel and other advanced biofuels to continue their rapid growth.
January 24, 2017 - Activity in the hallways of USDA’s D.C. headquarters is still muted, but Trump administration officials are starting to fill up the political-appointee offices. New faces in the communications department, Rural Development and other agencies are beginning to filter in.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2017 - President Donald Trump today officially pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that the Obama administration spent years orchestrating in order to give the U.S. a new leadership role among Pacific Rim countries.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2017 - President Donald Trump moves ahead with filling out his new administration after taking early action to stall some of Barack Obama's last-minute regulations. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, will head to a retreat this week to discuss how to replace the Affordable Care Act.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2017 - The Trump administration has delayed a new Agriculture Department rule that sets standards of proof for livestock and poultry producers who believe they have been harmed by processors' business practices.
