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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
The Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees has swept out workers across USDA, including loan analysts in Farm Service Agency field offices, ag scientists, and about 1,200 staff of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, according to sources.
The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins as secretary of agriculture.
The Trump administration is getting off to a much faster start in putting its team into place at USDA than was the case eight years ago, and that means the department is better positioned to deal with issues such as the fallout of a trade war, according to veterans of President Donald Trump’s first term.
USDA is raising its estimated average farm-gate price for the 2024 corn crop by 10 cents to $4.35 a bushel, while shaving the expected price for soybeans by 10 cents to $10.10 a bushel.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law dollars and those paused by an Office of Management and Budget directive.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development has has delayed food aid shipments and left the assistance without needed oversight to ensure it’s not wasted or diverted, the USAID inspector general says.