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The Government Accountability Office is recommending ways the federal government can improve its recordkeeping for weather modification operations.

The U.S. saw 70 new biogas projects come online last year, bringing the nation’s total number of facilities to nearly 2,600, according to new data released by the American Biogas Council. 

Three Mexican citizens have been indicted for “trafficking Mexican farmworkers into forced labor and harboring them in the United States after their visas expired” for financial gain, the Justice Department says.

Christy Puffenbarger was elected as chairwoman of the National Turkey Federation. The National Association of Conservation Districts board of directors elected Mark Masters of Georgia as the association’s president-elect. CropLife America hired Frank Plescia as director of state government relations. Emma Johnston joined the CFTC as a senior agriculture adviser. Kristina Aleksander joined the Association of Equipment Manufacturers as policy communications manager.

President Donald Trump has a crucial chance tonight to shore up his party’s political standing heading into the midterm elections. Trump is giving his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress just days after expressing anger over the Supreme Court's tariff decision, which is likely to figure significantly in the speech.

Agri-Pulse Founder and CEO Sara Wyant has been named The McAllister Top Management Fellow by the Software Information Industry Association. Each fall, the fellow spends three days with students and faculty at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

The House Ag Committee’s farm bill is a victim of the weather forecast. Ahead of a winter storm Sunday, the committee postponed a meeting that was scheduled Monday to begin debate on the legislation. The debate will now take place next week.

The highly popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program would lose around $1 billion in budget authority over the next four fiscal years under the House Agriculture Committee's GOP farm bill draft, according to calculations by the Congressional Budget Office. EQIP was essentially used as a funding source for other priorities in the legislation.

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union message days after the Supreme Court struck down a cornerstone of his trade policy, and his controversial pick for U.S. surgeon general will get her long-delayed Senate confirmation hearing. The House Agriculture Committee was scheduled to begin debating a GOP farm bill on Monday, but due to weather the start of the markup was delayed.

Less than a day after President Trump signed a proclamation to implement a 10% global tariff to reinstate some of the duties struck down by the Supreme Court, the president said he is raising it.