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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Agriculture Department's National Agricultural Statistics Service will reinstate its July Cattle and County Estimates for Crops and Livestock reports, both of which ended last year due to budget constraints.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday she hopes to beat the March 21 deadline set by Congress for distributing $31 billion in economic relief and disaster aid payments. She also promised that farmers would be “made whole” for financial losses from new trade wars.
President Trump designated Jeffery Hall as board chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration. Glen Smith of Iowa was elected chairman of the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation board of directors.
Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. The American Peanut Council hired Kate Maher as membership manager.
After serving 12 of the past 16 years leading the Department of Agriculture, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation to continue the legacy of global food security and sustainable agriculture leader, Norman Borlaug.
Agriculture Secretary-nominee Brooke Rollins will use her confirmation hearing Thursday to call for "immediately and comprehensively" containing ongoing animal disease outbreaks, and she will pledge to serve all of agriculture and all Americans, according to her opening statement.
USDA has requested adjustments to Mexican facilities set up to screen cattle exports to the U.S. for the New World Screwworm, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told his Mexican counterpart in a letter obtained by Agri-Pulse.
USDA is making it easier for growers to qualify for a new biofuel tax credit by increasing the number of eligible crops and climate-smart farming practices and dropping a bundling requirement.
