Articles by Noah Wicks

Boosting prescribed grazing * Ag climate group presses lawmakers * Fired USDA employees get reprieve

Donald Trump is doubling down on his prediction that farmers are going to sell a lot more of their crops domestically because of his trade wars. Trump imposed higher tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico on Tuesday. And in his speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, Trump reiterated his plan to impose reciprocal tariffs starting April 2.

ALRB on unsteady ground with Trump * Trump’s message to farmers * Lawmakers seek tariff waivers

Buyouts and firings have shrunken staffs at USDA field offices as the Trump administration works to downsize the federal workforce. Leases for some locations will soon be terminated.

Protecting CVP staff * Leadership class announced * Trump to farmers: ‘Have fun!’ with tariffs

The Agriculture Department has notified some building owners of plans to terminate office leases as the Trump Administration seeks to cut back on agency spending.

With farmers across the country concerned about losing workers to mass deportations, there are renewed calls for reforming the H-2A visa system. To that end, House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., tells Agri-Pulse he plans to introduce legislation that would put into law recommendations made by a committee task force in the last Congress.

The Trump administration’s budget-cutting is ending support for those therapeutic foods that are used to save malnourished kids overseas.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins is making some bold promises that rural America will boom again as the result of President Donald Trump’s policies.