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Recent actions by the Trump administration have put at risk a collection of 19 university-based laboratories that conduct specialized research on agricultural challenges facing underdeveloped countries, including nutrition, food safety, irrigation and livestock management.

Ottawa and Beijing have unveiled their opening salvos in retaliation to Trump's tariffs and threats. While ag features prominently in both countries’ tariff lists, the responses are measured, analysts say. 

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is eying more U.S. ethanol purchases as a way to erode the U.S. trade deficit, appease President Donald Trump, and meet the country's climate goals as U.S. growers watch with interest. 

President Donald Trump adjusted tariffs imposed during his first term to end exemptions on U.S. steel imports and raise duties on aluminum imports to 25%.

The Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development has has delayed food aid shipments and left the assistance without needed oversight to ensure it’s not wasted or diverted, the USAID inspector general says.

Senate GOP leaders have teed up action on five more nominations, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins to be secretary of agriculture.

President Donald Trump wielded emergency powers in a novel way to impose tariffs on China this week and threaten Canada and Mexico with future duties. For now, Republicans in Congress are happy to give the president wide discretion to use emergency powers as he sees fit.

House Republicans try to agree on a grand plan for enacting President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans this week, while the Senate GOP is opting for a Plan B, a smaller budget plan that leaves more the costliest issues for later. The Senate is set to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins' nomination to be secretary of agriculture.

The State Department is allowing the shipping and distribution of food aid to resume, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced. Some $560 million worth of commodities had been stalled ports around the world following the gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In a press conference Friday, President Donald Trump said he would likely announce “reciprocal” tariffs on U.S. trading partners next week.