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The Trump administration is planning unspecified steps to “claw back” farmland belonging to Chinese-owned agribusiness giants Smithfield Foods and Syngenta, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. On ag labor, Rollins said there would be no "amnesty" for farmworkers but that the administration would be "strategic in how we are implementing the mass deportations so as not to compromise our food supply."

Biofuel groups have been celebrating advances in the 45Z tax credit for clean fuel producers included in the GOP budget reconciliation bill, with one notable exception. 

President Donald Trump wrote to a spate of world leaders on Monday to inform them that their countries’ exports will face higher tariff rates starting next month, while leaving the door open to further increases or negotiated tariff reductions.

President Donald Trump and his top economic official are now eying Aug. 1 as the new deadline for when reciprocal tariffs will snap back into place on some U.S. trading partners.

President Donald Trump’s 90-day delay on adopting reciprocal tariffs on a slate of countries is set to end on Wednesday. Absent another delay from the president, or a flurry of eleventh-hour deals, some of the U.S.’ largest trading partners could face additional double-digit tariffs later this week.

John Harris, a farmer, cattle rancher, horse breeder, philanthropist and visionary businessman, passed away this week. 

President Donald Trump promised again that his administration is working on a way to protect the ag workforce from his deportation program by making farmers responsible for longtime workers.

Teamsters Local 577 members at the Tyson Foods packing plant in Amarillo, Texas, voted last night to ratify a collective bargaining agreement that includes improved benefits and wages for employees.

House GOP leaders overcame Republican objections to Senate provisions on SNAP, rural hospitals and other issues overnight Thursday to clear President Donald Trump’s massive spending and tax package for his signature. The bill will provide $66 billion in new spending for farm programs, the largest infusion of new money into farm programs since 2002.

House Agriculture Committee Republicans aren’t happy with some of the Senate’s changes to their SNAP reconciliation provisions. But they say other parts of the Republicans’ bill outweigh those concerns.