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President Joe Biden is out with his proposed budget for fiscal 2025, and it includes a significant increase in funding for USDA.

A new USDA proposed rule would change the requirements for the use of a voluntary “Product of USA” or “Made in the USA” label claim, ensuring the claim is only used on meat, poultry and egg products derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States.

President Joe Biden is nominating to the Supreme Court appellate judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a history-making pick who once upheld mandatory country of origin labeling requirements for meat.

An upcoming run-off election in one of the nation’s largest agricultural districts has produced a confrontation, with Texas’ colorful and controversial ag commissioner, Sid Miller, and President Donald Trump on one side, and major state and national farm groups on the other.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association hopes to address some of the industry’s longest-running issues in 2020, goals that will likely need the cooperation of an administration that is up for reelection in November.

The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association fired back at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s plans to engage on “Product of the U.S.A.” label discussions, saying the situation requires urgency.

The move puts the nation’s largest beef producer group, which has long been opposed to mandatory country-of-origin labeling, on the side of making sure voluntary COOL declarations are accurate and verifiable.

(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in our seven-part in-depth editorial series where we look ahead at “Farm & Food 2040.” This story focuses on the expanding use of marketing and product differentiation available through food labels and how consumers digest that buffet of information.)