Articles Tagged with ''One Big Beautiful Bill Act''

Base acreage for corn is expected to increase by 18%, or about 16.8 million acres, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to new Congressional Budget Office estimates. Soybean acreage, meanwhile, is projected otherwise to grow by 11.6 million acres, or 22%.

The Agriculture Department has finalized some revisions to the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs, including rules for adding new base acres, but signup won’t be scheduled until after planting season at the earliest, according to a top USDA official. Signup for the Dairy Margin Coverage will start Monday.

Congress is done for the year. But before wrapping up Thursday evening, the Senate approved a series of President Donald Trump’s nominees who will be important to agriculture and food policy. They include Julie Callahan to be chief ag trade negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

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. 

No ag officials in U.S.-China trade talks so far, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Industry figures and former officials say that suggests any announcement this week will reflect preliminary goals, without highly specific details.

Incentives included in the Rural Health Transformation Program may be driving increased support for SNAP restriction waivers.

The Trump administration has quietly moved some $13 billion from a fund used to deliver tariff assistance to farmers in President Trump’s first term to the Agriculture Secretary’s office.

We’ve wrapped up a newsy, annual Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City. Our headliner, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, made news in several ways.