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FDA is expanding the use of unannounced inspections at foreign facilities that produce foods and medicines, building on a pilot program already used in India and China.

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted along party lines Monday evening to send two USDA nominations to the Senate floor: Stephen Vaden to be deputy ag secretary and Tyler Clarkson to be USDA’s general counsel.

More than 15,000 of approximately 100,000 employees at USDA are preparing to leave the agency after accepting buyout offers that will allow them to keep being paid through the end of September, according to numbers shared with Agri-Pulse by a Capitol Hill source.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins faces back-to-back hearings this week, while House Republican leaders continued to struggle to agree on tax policy and deep cuts to SNAP and Medicaid that could be key to their budget reconciliation efforts.

Maine has agreed to drop a lawsuit against the Agriculture Department that challenged USDA's withholding of federal nutrition funds over the state's treatment of transgender athletes.

President Donald Trump is proposing to slash non-defense spending by nearly 23% in a fiscal 2026 budget that contains $5 billion in cuts to USDA programs, including agricultural research, international food aid, conservation technical assistance to farmers, and rural development. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative is a clear winner in the White House plan. 

We’re getting the first clues as to how farm equipment may be affected by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Major manufacturer AGCO reported Thursday it’s looking at price increases as an option, and CNH Industrial announced an increase in product prices “in the low single digits.”

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a gene edit used to create pigs resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, or PRRS.

Republicans on the House Ag Committee are planning to move their piece of the giant GOP budget reconciliation bill next week. But they’ve still got to agree on how they are going to achieve the savings they need.

The Make America Healthy Again movement, heralded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other members of the Trump administration, has long pinned the rise of chronic diseases on food chemicals and dyes. In an announcement last week laying out the federal government’s plan to eliminate synthetic dyes from the food supply, Kennedy set aim on another issue: Sugar.