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STB says the Kansas City Southern Railway Company can transport grain using Union Pacific Railroad Company tracks between Beaumont, Texas, and Gulf Coast ports.

The American Soybean Association hired Mariah Wollweber as senior director of marketing and communications. Justin Ransom was appointed administrator of the Food Safety Inspection Service. The Keystone Policy Center hired USDA alumnus Alyssa Charney as senior director of the agricultural technical assistance program. 

The National Wheat Foundation appointed Anne Osborne as the next executive director. Peter Laudeman joined USDA as a senior policy adviser for trade and foreign agricultural affairs. The U.S. Wheat Associates hired Julia Debes as director of communications and stakeholder outreach.

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the green light to proceed with reorganizations at 19 federal agencies, including the Agriculture Department.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson wants to move legislation this fall to address farm and nutrition programs left out of the budget reconciliation bill.

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. 

California legislators competed in the Great Tomato Challenge, sponsored by Agri-Pulse, to see who could grow the biggest and best looking tomato plant over an eight-week time period and the winners' prizes were donated to food banks of their choice. 

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.