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Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins teased on Friday that she will have a major announcement involving farmers coming soon. Rollins posted on X an interview with Fox News in which she expressed confidence that farmers overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump even though they knew they might be harmed by retaliatory tariffs.
U.S. agricultural exports must contend with a wide range of trade barriers not based in science that impede access to overseas markets, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in its latest National Trade Estimate Report.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to restrict and monitor atrazine use to address impacts on aquatic plants, including by prohibiting applications in saturated fields and, for growers of sorghum, sweet corn and field corn, limiting annual application rates to 2 pounds.
Brazil’s Ministry of Economy announced Tuesday that beginning Wednesday, Brazil will suspend its 18% tariff on ethanol imports for the rest of 2022 in an inflation-cutting effort to reduce fuel prices domestically.
Florida has expanded its right-to-farm law by making it more difficult for residents to sue over the impacts of agricultural operations, adding a slew of conditions designed to discourage lawsuits.
U.S. and Brazilian negotiators continue to haggle over U.S. access to Brazil’s ethanol market, but lawmakers like House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., are losing patience as the talks drag on.
Six Florida companies whose H-2A applications to hire truck drivers were denied by the Labor Department may get some relief as the result of a court decision Monday.
The Department of Agriculture expects imports of an additional 100,000 short tons of refined Mexican sugar to compensate for shortages in U.S. production.
There won’t likely be enough sugar in the U.S. market to comfortably supply all the bakers, candy makers and food manufacturers that need it at a reasonable price, so USDA will soon be announcing a plan to allow for more imports, the department announced Friday.
