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The most recent installment of the Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey shows that most Americans are aware of the MAHA movement and view it positively, though not at the same levels across party lines.

Jamison Cruce left his position as vice president of government relations at USA Rice to launch his own firm, Cruce Capitol Consulting. Jake Westlin, former vice president at the National Association of Wheat Growers, will succeed Cruce at USA Rice. The Senate Ag Committee Republicans hired Carlye Winfrey as a legislative aide. Growth Energy hired Jared Henderson and Emma Keiser as directors of government affairs. 

Martha Smith was promoted to vice president of North America agricultural affairs and license to operate at Bayer Crop Science. The National Pork Producers Council hired Shannon McMurtrey-Belson as senior director of international affairs and Dillon Davidson as director of state policy. Jeremy Witte was sworn in as deputy under secretary of marketing and regulatory programs at USDA.

The Senate Ag Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would allow schools to serve whole milk and provide nondairy substitutes that have equivalent nutrition. 

The average farm would pay $5,125 more in taxes each year should Congress fail to extend expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to an analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

House appropriators are set to start moving their fiscal 2026 spending bills this week, just days after the White House finally released details of its budget requests. 

Senate Republicans are sharply divided over key parts of the House GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill ahead of a critical summer session and a looming deadline imposed by the U.S. debt ceiling. House appropriators start work on their fiscal 2026 spending bills, including the Agriculture measure, and Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins heads to Italy on another trade mission.

The Department of Energy added new feedstock options to its model for determining eligibility and carbon intensity scores for biofuel producers under the 45Z tax credit. 

The White House is downplaying a report that found problems with dozens of citations in the Make America Healthy Again Commission report. 

A federal judge on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the farm bill’s Swampbuster provision, which puts producers at risk of losing access to farm program benefits if caught destroying protected wetlands.

A federal appeals court on Thursday stayed a decision issued  by the Court of International Trade that found President Donald Trump did not have authority to impose 10% tariffs on almost every country in the world.