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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that the administration will make an announcement on further payments to farmers suffering from export losses next week.

The State Department says it is developing new funding awards for Feed the Future labs, many of which have been in limbo since the administration froze funding earlier this year.

Luther Markwart, CEO and executive vice president at the American Sugarbeet Growers Association for the past 44 years, will retire at the end of 2026, according to an announcement from the group’s board of directors. 

Expiring expanded premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance will be a big issue for Congress in its post-holiday stretch. Democrats were promised a vote on the issue as part of a deal to reopen the government.

Senate Republican leadership is assembling one more package of Trump administration nominees for a floor vote this year.

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.