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Summit Carbon Solutions, the company behind a nearly $10 billion carbon pipeline meant to boost the fortunes of the U.S. Corn Belt, is working to win support after a raft of setbacks. Meanwhile, a CO2 project with ethanol plants in Nebraska has started up operations, giving the No. 3 corn-growing U.S. state a potential edge over No. 1 Iowa. 

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has survived another challenge on Capitol Hill. But this time, Republican tariff critics say they’ve secured some concessions.

The Agriculture Department is lowering its forecast for farm earnings in 2025 as declines in the crop sector more than offset soaring incomes for cattle producers.  

The Labor Department plans to update the way it calculates the adverse effect wage rate used in the H-2A guest worker program, which could be good news for growers.

USDA projected Tuesday that farmers will produce a record 16.7 billion bushels of corn this fall and sharply lowered its forecast for the average corn price, which if realized could trigger significantly higher commodity program payments.

Senate Ag Committee has sends USDA nominations of Hoskins and Hutchins to the floor.

Biofuel and farm groups are generally hopeful that the Trump administration’s proposal on target for renewable fuels will better support growth across the industry, in addition to propping up domestic feedstocks. 
However, a lack of resolution on how the administration will handle small refinery exemptions and recent proposals on the 45Z tax credit for clean fuel producers could continue uncertainty in the market. 

Feed costs for swine producers are predicted to continue a downward trend in the second half of 2025, according to a recent study from Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

Triple-digit tariff hikes on each other’s imports, if sustained, are set to reshape U.S.-China trade – particularly for agricultural products, where price competition is fierce. As U.S. ag producers stare down the barrel of steep export losses, they’re hoping the high tariffs offer new opportunities in domestic biofuel that can at least soften the tariff blow. But much will depend on the policy signals from Washington, analysts say.