Items Tagged with 'Donald Trump'

In 2024, rural America played a large role in carrying Donald Trump to the White House for a second time. Across the country, hurricanes damaged ag infrastructure in Florida, the Carolinas and the Southeastern U.S., and H5N1 spread to dairy cattle. 

After months of development, the farm bill passed out of the House Ag Committee with four Democratic votes and guarded optimism, but it never even made it to the House floor, ultimately leading to another one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will tap Stephen Miran, a trade hawk who supports the use of tariffs as a revenue-raising tool, to serve as a top economic adviser in his incoming administration.

Some lawmakers are concerned about the future of a trade preference program for sub-Saharan Africa after a last-ditch effort to pass the bill this Congress fell short.

Stephen Vaden, a judge on the Court of International Trade who served as general counsel for USDA during President-elect Donald Trump's first administration, has been selected to be the department’s deputy secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump says he is pressing the European Union to ramp up purchases of U.S. oil and gas or face tariffs on its exports to the United States. As of 2023, the EU can adopt countermeasures, including tariffs or import quotas, if the European Commission determines a government is engaging in economic coercion.

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, told Agri-Pulse Wednesday her meetings with senators this week have been "extremely productive" and highlighted the regional and bipartisan nature of farm policy.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday signaled support for unionized dockworkers' calls to bar automation at East and Gulf Coast ports amid tense labor negotiations that may result in a mid-January strike. 

The Mexican government is stressing the benefits of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to the United States amid President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats and preparations for the trade deal's forthcoming review – in which market access for U.S. agriculture could feature prominently. 

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on U.S. trade partners is worrisome, the head of the Agricultural Retailers Association told his group’s annual conference in Houston last week.

A post-election survey confirms that the cost of groceries was a major issue that helped Donald Trump win election.