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Daybreak April 3: As Trump unveils new duties, Senate delivers a rebuke

04/03/25 10:00 AM By Rebekah Alvey, Philip Brasher, Oliver Ward, Noah Wicks, and Lydia Johnson

Just hours after President Trump announced sweeping new duties on U.S. trade partners, multiple senators from his own party sided with Democrats to rebuke his trade policy.

U.S. ag producers try to shape reciprocal tariffs

03/12/25 3:32 PM By Oliver Ward

U.S. ag groups flagged non-reciprocal tariff rates and trade barriers and weighed in on the design of new duties and what the U.S. should do with the revenue in submissions to trade officials.

Daybreak March 5: Trump to farmers on tariffs: Have ‘a lot of fun’

03/05/25 3:17 PM By Rebekah Alvey, Oliver Ward, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

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.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Knupp joins USDA, Combelic promoted at ASA

02/12/25 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

Courtney Knupp joined USDA as a senior adviser to the deputy secretary. The International Fresh Produce Association promoted Colleen Fagundus to director of floral. The American Soybean Association promoted Alexa Combelic to executive director of government affairs.

Michael Harris joined the staff of Senate Ag Committee member Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a policy adviser. The American Seed Trade Association hired Danielle Cummins as director of member engagement.

Farm Hands West: Fong sworn into U.S. House

06/05/24 7:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

Republican Rep. Vince Fong has taken the seat of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after winning a special election in May, and Derek Neilson, head of the agriculture division at Case New Holland Industrial, has left the company to pursue entrepreneurial interests.

Crowder, former ag trade negotiator, economist, dies

06/03/24 9:38 AM By Philip Brasher

Richard Crowder, a longtime economist and agribusiness leader who served as former chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative during the George W. Bush administration, has died at the age of 84.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: Larson to lead EOPA

03/13/24 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

New leadership has been chosen for the Edible Oil Processors Association and Midwest Dairy Association.

World needs more farmland, economist says

12/06/23 3:39 PM By Steve Davies

Global demand requires that the world add more than 20 million acres to crop production over the next five years, agricultural economist Dan Basse told attendees of the American Seed Trade Association’s annual field crop convention in Orlando Wednesday.

Farm Hands West: Douglass elected to lead California Farm Bureau

12/06/23 7:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The California Farm Bureau elected Shannon Douglass, who currently serves as the organization's first vice president, to replace president Jamie Johansson during the Farm Bureau’s 105th Annual Meeting in Reno.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: Bumpus promoted at FDA, Gilson heads to AFBF

12/06/23 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The Food and Drug Administration is promoting Namandjé Bumpus to principal deputy commissioner upon the retirement of Janet Woodcock early next year. Bumpus joined the FDA in August 2022 to serve as the agency’s chief scientist. Michael Rogers has been named associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 4, 2025: Sen. Hoeven on tariffs, budget reconciliation

President Trump unveiled a massive tariff plan this week adding a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, plus a higher reciprocal tariff on many U.S. trading partners. We asked Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., how the tariffs will affect producers and how farm bill elements may be incorporated into budget reconciliation.

Then, the American Soybean Association's Virginia Houston and Joe Glauber from the International Food Policy Research Institute discuss which producers could be hurt the most by the tariffs and how farmers' cost of production will increase.

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