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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving medical schools two weeks to submit plans for embedding nutrition education in their curricula. 

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden says the Trump administration is looking at providing some kind of emergency assistance to producers to serve as a “bridge” until they get commodity program payments on their 2025 crops next fall.

Church Brothers Farms hired Greg Corrigan as director of sales, west. He worked at Raley’s Family of Fine Stores for 35 years, ascending the ranks from produce clerk at Bel Air Supermarkets to vice president and senior director of produce and floral. Corrigan also served as CEO of the United Vegetable Cooperative. Loree Dowse was also promoted to vice president of marketing and communications. She has been with Church Brothers Farm since 2023, recently as director of marketing. She earlier held roles with Del Monte Fresh Produce/Mann Packing, Wells Fargo and Porter Novelli International.

The Trump administration is discussing some type of “bridge” financial assistance to help farmers make it into 2026, says Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden.

Justin Sherlock and other farmers in North Dakota are just a month away from combining their soybean crop, and their biggest market, China, has yet to order a single bushel. As a result, local cash bids in Sherlock’s area was down to $9.09 a bushel on Tuesday, $1.40 below the CME Group’s November futures price. That spread, or basis, would normally be about 70 to 90 cents a bushel, 

Staff shortages at FSA offices are alarming members of the farmer-elected committees that oversee county office operations across the country, who warn that increased responsibilities could lead to delays in program payments for farmers.