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House Agriculture ranking member Angie Craig and fellow Democrats plan to introduce three-pronged legislation aimed at helping struggling farmers and safeguarding low-income Americans from the risk of losing key food benefits. 

As farmers get a new round of bad crop market news, biofuel investment has stalled due to U.S. policy uncertainty. 

The cost of eating at home jumped 0.7% in December, driven by the continued surge in beef prices and increases in a broad range of other foods, including dairy products, cereal and baked goods, and fruits and vegetables. Beef prices rose 1% in December and are up 16.4% over the past year.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins highlighted progress her department has made over the last year in reducing the agricultural trade deficit, improving demand and reducing costs for farmers, while emphasizing the need for more work ahead. 

The new year is a week old and the window for Congress to tackle pressing U.S. agriculture legislation is already rapidly narrowing.

Farmer sentiment weakened a bit last month as producers’ future outlook softened somewhat, and there is ongoing concern about prospects for soybean exports, according to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index.

The $11 billion in aid for row crop farmers is welcome but not enough to cover losses incurred “over the last few years,” an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis says.

The last survey of U.S. food security that the Agriculture Department is scheduled to produce found that 13.7% of households were food insecure in 2024, the highest rate since 2014.

President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January and quickly followed through on many of his campaign promises – an aggressive trade agenda, a renewed focus on food inflation, and the use of a Republican-controlled House and Senate to enact a sweeping budget reconciliation bill that included major new agriculture spending. Take a look back at Agri-Pulse's top stories in 2025. 

A group of more than a dozen congressional Democrats is urging the Trump administration to impose safeguards on farm aid payments to prevent the money from further driving consolidation in U.S. agriculture.