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President Donald Trump and his administration cannot mandate mass layoffs at federal agencies, a federal judge ruled late Thursday, ordering the Agriculture Department and more than a dozen other federal agencies to stop planning for reorganization and RIFs.

With criticisms of pesticides, seed oils and ultraprocessed foods, the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s first report is shaking up the traditional Washington alignments.  

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration is having internal discussions about what to do regarding farmworkers who are in the country illegally.

The Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program is now under review, leaving the fate of some projects that were nearing construction in limbo. 

A federal judge has ordered the Agriculture Department and 20 other federal agencies to halt reorganization efforts for two weeks after finding that their downsizing attempts likely stem from unlawful Trump Administration orders.

More than 15,000 of approximately 100,000 employees at USDA are preparing to leave the agency after accepting buyout offers that will allow them to keep being paid through the end of September, according to numbers shared with Agri-Pulse by a Capitol Hill source.

Cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are expected to reduce the agency's workforce by more than 90% and take away funding for farm safety research.

The Trump administration has named Jaye Hamby director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and appointed new policy advisers, chiefs of staff for four USDA mission areas, and senior personnel for communications and external relations.

Farmers will be given some flexibility under the current administration’s mass deportation program so they can continue to employ undocumented immigrants working at their operations, President Donald Trump said at a cabinet meeting today.

Farmers and 401(k) holders are certainly breathing a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump paused his reciprocal tariffs. But two steep tariff increases on China in the last two days will still deal a huge blow to some ag sectors.