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Permitting issues at the state level have been a key barrier to carbon pipeline projects. Now a new law in South Dakota has complicated plans for a 2,500-mile pipeline designed to capture CO2 from 57 ethanol plants in five states.

Corn, sorghum, soybean and wheat exports are heavily dependent on markets that are headed for population decline over the next 25 years, according to a new report by Terrain.

The Agriculture Department is one of 16 federal departments and agencies that reported improper payments totaling $162 billion in fiscal 2024, including $10.5 billion in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at USDA, according to the Government Accountability Office.

USDA is lowering its estimates of global corn and soybean stocks in a report that doesn’t account yet for the impact of reciprocal tariffs or of new duties on Canada and Mexico that President Donald Trump plans for April.

The National Oilseed Processors Association hired Corey McCray as vice president of government affairs. Tucker Stewart, general counsel and a top agriculture aide to Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., departed from the office. Mary Galey joined the Department of Agriculture as scheduling director. 

The National Association of Wheat Growers hired Anthony Peña as policy manager. Former Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hired Morgan Orem as a legislative assistant. 

Leaders of USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services committed to releasing the final Dietary Guidelines for Americans ahead of the statutory deadline and said they are looking for ways to make future processes more transparent. 

The Agriculture Department says it will pay probationary employees fired last month back pay and work on a “phased plan” for their return to the office.

As the Trump administration tightens its scrutiny over Biden-era climate programs, federal funding for the Working Lands Conservation Corps is drawing to a halt.

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service officials will be discussing the bird flu outbreak with state officials and industry stakeholders today. The call comes after Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart.com that vaccines were “off the table,” leading to questions about whether vaccination would still be part of the administration’s bird flu strategy.

The Food and Drug Administration, picking up a key priority of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, will consider potential rulemaking to eliminate the self-affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe pathway for food ingredients and chemicals.