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Many of the threats that have faced the global produce industry over the last two years, including geopolitical risks, tariffs, inflation, labor and artificial intelligence, remain key challenges. However, the leader of the International Fresh Produce Association says IFPA is ramping up advocacy efforts and making progress on several fronts in the “Fight for Fresh.”

A coalition of farmers and food companies launched the American Meat Producers Association to defend state animal welfare laws like California’s Proposition 12, complicating efforts by House Ag Committee Republicans to include federal preemption in an upcoming farm bill.

Food Is Medicine is having a moment as back-to-back U.S. administrations have pushed for much more nutrition-based health care throughout the system. But funding cuts to key programs like Medicaid and SNAP are introducing division into an otherwise rare example of policy compatibility between Republicans and Democrats. 

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has teased a plan to spur beef producers to restock their shrunken herds, but economists already expect U.S. cattle inventories to begin growing soon. It’s just a matter of when.

Longtime agriculture advocate Sam Kieffer is the new CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., says trade is not a cure-all for American agriculture. He told attendees of the annual Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, “If you think that trade is going to solve all our woes, I think you're wrong."

The Trump administration is vowing to protect American farmers from "high and volatile" costs of fertilizer, seed, equipment and other key inputs as growers grapple with a difficult agriculture economy.

Retailers participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would have to increase the diversity of foods they sell under a proposal announced today by the Agriculture Department.

Former Housing and Urban Development secretary and noted neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been named a national nutrition, health and housing adviser at the Agriculture Department.