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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 07, 2025
The State Department is allowing the shipping and distribution of food aid to resume, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced. Some $560 million worth of commodities had been stalled ports around the world following the gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A 90-day suspension and stop-work order on most U.S. foreign aid has snagged some anti-hunger and agricultural development efforts while stalling shipping of some agricultural commodities, although emergency food assistance can still be distributed.
President Donald Trump announced sweeping duties on Canada, Mexico and China over the weekend, triggering a trade conflict with the U.S.’ largest agricultural trading partners.
More Senate confirmation hearings are on tap today. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head EPA, former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, will appear before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, selected to be interior secretary, will testify before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
The departments of Homeland Security and Labor need to streamline their operation of the H-2A farmworker program both to facilitate electronic processing of applications and more quickly identify workers who are due back wages, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued last week.
The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) partnership, a State Department-funded program aimed at building resilient crops and healthy soils globally, has expanded to Guatemala.
The U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department are dispatching $54 million in food, water, hygiene supplies, blankets and other emergency goods to Ukrainians trying to survive the invasion of Russian troops.
Agriculture groups are planning to appeal to the Biden administration for an exemption from the upcoming South Africa travel ban to allow H-2A workers to get to the United States to start work on U.S. farms.
The action may scare some potential investors away from doing new business with Cuban buyers, but it won’t have a direct impact on U.S. agricultural exports to the island nation.
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