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It’s been a rocky year for food companies, agribusiness firms, ag lenders and farmers navigating the seismic shift in policies coming out of Washington when it comes to environmental policy, even as much of the farm economy is mired in a multiyear slump. But many companies are pressing forward with their environmental goals and testing new ways of financing changes in farming practices. 

President Trump cut duties on imported fertilizers earlier this month, but multiple analysts tell Agri-Pulse that prices are still likely to stay high through next year’s planting season amid tight global supplies.

Farmers looking to get federal conservation funding through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program will no longer face limits to how much they can receive.

Political and market forces are converging around the U.S. biofuel industry as farmers and refiners press Washington on policy decisions that both sides say will be critical to future growth.

The Trump administration's demands for state data to carry out its investigation of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are meeting resistance both from Democratic-led states and from Democrats in Congress. State officials also are puzzled by estimates USDA has released. 

The 16th annual Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture, hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, highlighted the importance of pollinators and the growing threats to their populations.

Bright-orange fingers may soon be a thing of the past as PepsiCo announced a new line of Doritos and Cheetos called Simply NKD, free of artificial flavors and dyes.

A federal court in Massachusetts has awarded $38.9 million to Sonate Corp.’s Vegadelphia Foods after finding Beyond Meat Inc. guilty of trademark infringement.

The U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council elected Karen Horan from the National Confectioners Association as chair. The Agriculture Workforce Coalition elected American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall and Western Growers President and CEO Dave Puglia as the new coalition co-chairs. The Seed Innovation Protection Alliance tapped Chris Reat as executive director. The U.S. Soybean Export Council hired Randall Wanke as industry affairs manager.

Seth Meyer, USDA's chief economist since 2021, will lead the University of Missouri's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute beginning in January, according to the school.