Philip Brasher

President-elect Donald Trump scheduled meetings with three Texans who are candidates for agriculture secretary, including former Rep. Henry Bonilla and former state official Susan Combs, who has already met with Vice President-elect Mike Pence

Sales of medically important antibiotics for food-producing animals rose by 2 percent last year and are up 26 percent since 2009, the Food and Drug Administration says in its latest annual report on usage of the drugs.

Elsa Murano, a former undersecretary for food safety at USDA who later served a short, rocky tenure as president of Texas A&M University, will be interviewed by President-elect Donald Trump to become secretary of agriculture.

Peter Navarro, an outspoken critic of China and U.S. trade policy who advised President-elect Donald Trump during his campaign, will lead a newly established National Trade Council in the White House

Susan Combs, a former Texas agriculture commissioner and state comptroller, interviewed with Vice President-elect Mike Pence to become agriculture secretary or possible take another role in the Trump administration. Combs has the support of House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway&#

President Obama signed into law a water projects authorization bill and issued a statement cautioning agency managers to heed endangered species requirements before increasing irrigation water supplies in California€s drought-stricken Central Valley.

Agriculture secretary is a very big deal for President-elect Donald Trump and as with other cabinet positions he wants to make sure he is getting the right person for USDA, said spokesman Jason Miller.

Donald Trump, Representative Ryan Zinke, Interior Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, Wade Cowan, Charles W. Herbster, Butch Otter, Bill Flory, Heidi Heitkamp, USTR, Dan DiMicco, World Trade Organization, China, Nucor steel

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has picked as Interior secretary first-term Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, who has bucked his GOP colleagues over public lands issues

Donald Trump, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Mitch McConnell, Packers and Stockyards Act, USDA, National Pork Producers Council, National Farmers Union, Roger Johnson, House Agriculture Committee, Senate Agriculture Committee, Chuck Grassley, Rick Perry