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Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Congressional leaders are due to meet with President Joe Biden today as lawmakers face a Friday deadline for keeping USDA and several other departments funded.
The Senate this week tackles a bipartisan border security compromise that likely faces unsurmountable opposition from House Republicans and former President Donald Trump.
Farmers believe the nation is on the wrong track, and a strong plurality support electing Donald Trump to another term as president, according to a poll commissioned by Agri-Pulse of producers across the country.
President Joe Biden and cabinet members, including top USDA officials, start a two-week rural America tour Wednesday to “barnstorm the country" and highlight $5 billion in rural infrastructure and conservation investments.
President Joe Biden and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack are stopping at a Minnesota farm today to announce $5 billion in funding for projects across rural America.
Irrigation expert Atef Swelam has joined the staff at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) as the director of Kearney and West Side Research and Extension Centers.
Laura Daniel-Davis has a new role within the Interior Department and a lawmaker with a longtime focus on trade and agricultural issues announces his retirement.
In a ritual that takes place every four years, presidential candidates have swooped into the Iowa State Fair to mingle with the throngs, and craft their pitches to the state's voters while occasionally addressing rural and agriculture issues that seldom get mentioned later in the campaign.
Lawmakers have cleared a resolution that would overturn the Biden administration’s listing of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act, but the measure failed to get veto-proof majorities in either the House or Senate.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Paul Martin as the inspector general of the United States Agency for International Development and USDA has made some senior staff changes.
