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Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman is expected to present the committee’s plans on reconciliation to the rest of the conference today before finalizing the text for later this week. 

More than 15,000 Agriculture Department employees have accepted deferred resignation offers from the Trump Administration. Most are from outside of the Washington D.C. region and waited until the program's second round to accept, according to data obtained by Agri-Pulse. 

Following the rise of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again Movement, over 100 bills have been introduced at the state level seeking to regulate the food industry. These efforts range from banning certain food ingredients in school meals to prohibiting ingredients in the whole state.

Robin Giles ranches cattle, sheep and goats down in the Texas Hill Country on land that’s been in his family for over 130 years. Though he hasn’t seen a case of New World screwworm since 1972, memories of the flesh-eating parasite have stuck with him.

Cattle imported from Mexico have become a significant part of the U.S. beef supply, raising the stakes for the Trump administration’s battle against an outbreak of New World screwworm at a time when U.S. cattle production is in a down cycle. Consumers are feeling the pinch of higher beef prices due to the reduction in cattle supplies, while ranches and feedlots in the southwestern United States that rely on Mexican cattle for their normal operations also are being hurt.

U.S. drone manufacturers are mostly happy with new executive orders designed to boost domestic manufacturing of drones, including agricultural models used to scout fields and apply pesticides.

A recent study by USDA’s Economic Service identifies the 11 most common types of claims found on fluid milk and yogurt product packaging in the U.S.

A delegation led by the Foreign Ag Service arrived Monday in Lima, Peru, for a four-day agribusiness trade mission intended to boost American ag exports to the country.

The 2025 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card released yesterday showed a year-over-year decline in the area’s health for 2024, though the report still shows an upward long-term trend.

Brian Glenn joined the American Farm Bureau Federation as director of government affairs. The National Grain and Feed Association hired Allison Rivera as vice president of government and industry affairs. The American Feed Industry Association promoted Victoria Broehm and Leah Wilkinson.

Roger Cryan is no longer with the American Farm Bureau Federation where he served as chief economist. Lowell Randel will lead the newly established agricultural policy advocacy program at Texas Tech University. The Senate confirmed David Fotouhi to serve as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.