Articles by Noah Wicks

A new analysis is finding wide disparities among farmers and landowners when it comes to the changes to commodity programs in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the administration is staying the course with its use of tariffs. But he told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that the administration would refund tariffs if the Supreme Court rules that President Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to implement them. 

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson is expressing confidence in President Donald Trump’s trade policy. But Thompson, R-Pa., says on this week’s Agri-Pulse Newsmakers that the size of an emergency farm assistance package will depend in part on whether Trump can nail down some new trade deals. 

House Ag Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson says Congress can use tariff revenue to provide a new round of emergency aid to farmers to compensate them for the uncertainty around exports. 

Officials in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office are raising concerns about whether Brazil is doing enough to prevent deforestation as they pursue a Section 301 investigation into the South American nation’s trade practices.

John Deere leaders say a new digital tool for diagnosing machine problems and reprogramming software shows the company’s commitment to farmers servicing their own equipment.

Lawmakers are back in D.C. after their long summer recess. House Republicans are kicking off the month by proposing to slash spending for the Labor Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Protection.

The Labor Department plans to update the way it calculates the adverse effect wage rate used in the H-2A guest worker program, which could be good news for growers.

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden says the Trump administration is looking at providing some kind of emergency assistance to producers to serve as a “bridge” until they get commodity program payments on their 2025 crops next fall.