Items Tagged with 'National Milk Producers Federation'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a bill allowing whole milk to be served in schools.

California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross will retire at the end of 2026. Todd Ferrara launched Ferrara Government Affairs, a new advocacy and consulting firm, in Sacramento. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a northern California Republican and fourth-generation rice farmer on the House Agriculture Committee, died. He was 65. Justin Benavidez, who was chief economist for the House Agriculture Committee's Republican staff for the past three years, is succeeding Seth Meyer as USDA chief economist.  

The House gave final congressional approval Monday to a bill allowing schools to return to serving whole milk, overturning a key provision of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed in 2010. 

The European Union’s legislative and executive bodies are at odds over how to move forward with bringing deforestation regulations into effect. 

Michael Boren has. been confirmed as USDA's undersecretary for natural resources, and Devon Westhill as assistant agriculture secretary for civil rights. John Hollay will replace Michael Marsh as president and CEO of the National Council of Agricultural Employers. Sam Kieffer will be the next CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers. The International Feed Industry Federation elected Constance Cullman as chair. 

The Trump administration’s goal of deporting as many immigrants as possible is colliding with the farm industry’s dependence on undocumented labor, leading to a clash of competing interests.

Jamison Cruce left his position as vice president of government relations at USA Rice to launch his own firm, Cruce Capitol Consulting. Jake Westlin, former vice president at the National Association of Wheat Growers, will succeed Cruce at USA Rice. The Senate Ag Committee Republicans hired Carlye Winfrey as a legislative aide. Growth Energy hired Jared Henderson and Emma Keiser as directors of government affairs. 

Martha Smith was promoted to vice president of North America agricultural affairs and license to operate at Bayer Crop Science. The National Pork Producers Council hired Shannon McMurtrey-Belson as senior director of international affairs and Dillon Davidson as director of state policy. Jeremy Witte was sworn in as deputy under secretary of marketing and regulatory programs at USDA.

U.S. ag groups flagged non-reciprocal tariff rates and trade barriers and weighed in on the design of new duties and what the U.S. should do with the revenue in submissions to trade officials.

U.S. negotiators should push for a catch-up clause in the forthcoming U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement review to make up for what they see as Ottawa’s mismanagement of tariff-rate quotas, according to a dairy industry representative.

USDA has rolled out a plan to test the nation’s milk supply for avian flu, which has swept through a large portion of the nation’s dairy herd since March.