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Several USDA employees and the National Federation of Federal Employees have filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins for use of religious mass communications.

Michael Dykes will retire as president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association at the end of the year. Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt has resigned, and Colton Buckley has been elevated to lead the agency. 

House Ways and Means Committee Democrats are urging the administration to tone down the rhetoric heading into discussions with Canada and Mexico on the future of a North American trade deal. 

Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt has resigned from the agency, according to a letter sent to staff and obtained by Agri-Pulse. 

Details of what President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to around agricultural market access continue to trickle out. 

The House Transportation Committee unveils a proposed $580 billion, five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill. 

Agriculture markets are analyzing the outcome of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while U.S. lawmakers are taking in the latest sign of a tumultuous political season ahead. 

China will buy at least $17 billion in U.S. agricultural commodities each year for the next three years – on top of preexisting commitments on soybeans – as part of a deal struck during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, according to the White House. In addition to those purchases, the administration separately secured commitments to revive poultry and beef exports.

President Donald Trump left Beijing on Friday with two new vehicles for cooperation with Chinese officials on trade and investments, hundreds of reinstated beef export facility registrations as well as some new ones, and the next bilateral leaders' meeting lined up. U.S. agriculture is still hoping there is more in store.