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The National Pork Producers Council hired Kelcy Schaunaman as manager of competition, labor, and tax. Jillien Streit was appointed director of the Montana Department of Agriculture. 

DTB AgriTrade hired Gina Tumbarello as a partner. Phil Radford has departed from the Sierra Club where he previously served as chief strategy officer. The American Coalition for Ethanol board of directors elected new 2025 officers. 

Egg prices are continuing to climb as highly pathogenic avian influenza continues spreading across U.S. layer flocks, though broiler operations have also seen a recent upswing in cases.

Farmer sentiment improved slightly in January as corn and soybean prices turned upward, according to the latest Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa has acquired Canadian crop insurer Palliser Insurance.

Sustaining American competitiveness through agricultural education and building a workforce prepared to work with artificial intelligence were key priorities for the National FFA Organization and its partners at an event Tuesday in the House Agriculture Committee room. 

Brooke Appleton, an alumnus from the first Trump administration, has been appointed USDA deputy undersecretary for farm production and conservation, according to a USDA source familiar with the hiring.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services is poised for a full Senate vote after the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported him Tuesday. 

Today is a critical day for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and hopes for the Make America Healthy Again movement. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on Kennedy’s nomination Tuesday. But a key Republican committee member, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, wouldn’t tell reporters Monday how he was planning to vote, saying only that he and Kennedy had a “cordial” conversation over the weekend.

The Chinese Ministry of Finance unveiled its response to new U.S. duties that went into effect Tuesday morning, announcing new tariffs beginning next week on agriculture machinery, but leaving soybeans and other agricultural commodities unaffected.