Ag Policy Blog

In a proclamation Friday, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would lower the tariff rate quota to increase imports of lean beef trimmings and all of the increased quota would come from Argentina.

A USDA spokesperson defended the Trump administration's record and policies against criticism from farm leaders. The farm leaders issued a call-to-action to Congress. The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee pointed to farm policies and tax cuts for farmers passed in...

Producers responding to the monthly Purdue survey took a dive in optimism in January. Purdue economists noted the January barometer survey was Jan. 12-16, while USDA's January World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report came out Jan. 12. Crop prices fell...

Nationwide, year-round E15 is a potential opportunity, but a group of refiners also have their own plans to use the new E15 Rural Energy Council to shake up the Renewable Fuels Standard as well. So far, there are remain a lot of questions about how this energy council will...

Luke Lindberg, USDA's undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, is stressing the need for USDA to press rapid response trade missions with new deals to get various commodity groups in the country meeting prospective buyers.

President Donald Trump again declared his support for E15 legislation as the president held a campaign rally in Iowa. The president only briefly touched on problems with the farm economy but maintained his trade and tax policies had reinvigorated the country's economy.

Iowa Corn and the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) on Monday released an open letter to the president, asking him to push E15 through Congress. Separately, the American Soybean Association on Monday also raised concerns about the rural energy council and the scope of...

In a bipartisan letter, leaders on the Senate Agriculture Committee wrote Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday calling on the department to reinstate additional crop insurance coverage for acres prevented from being planted.

Congress will have to look at a separate piece of legislation to increase aid for farmers after an appropriations bill negotiated by lawmakers doesn't include such funding. Farm groups continue to campaign for aid.

Farm groups are stressing the economic challenges they are facing to lawmakers in multiple letters on the topics. Corn growers and biofuel groups also have been advocating for year-round E15 for 15 years now and yet that effort has not gotten across the finish line in...

Peter Navarro, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, in an op-ed on Thursday in The Hill, noted that U.S. farmers are at risk when they rely too heavily on a single foreign buyer. Here is what he advocated should be done.

Speaking before Farm Bureau members, leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees said their priorities next year center on strengthening risk management tools, expanding credit and loan programs, fixing the H-2A guestworker system, and restoring stability in export...

Leaders from the Trump administration continue to celebrate the release of new dietary guidelines. Officials said the Dietary Guidelines for America Roadshow will begin next week with an appearance by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in Pennsylvania.

Some lawmakers and groups declared victory on Monday after a funding bill for EPA had a provision removed that would have blocked EPA from updating public warnings about pesticides and provided immunity to manufacturers because their products had been approved by EPA.

Venezuela's leadership change may boost U.S. agricultural exports beyond the current $753.21 million, with opportunities for both food and technology.

Waiting until the end of the year, USDA on Wednesday released payment rates for the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program. Payments for the program should start arriving at the end of February.

In an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published in the Federal Register on Monday, USDA asks stakeholders to comment on possible changes to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, which was last updated in 2006.

As analysts often offer their outlook on the next year, here's a tongue-in-cheek look at the forecast for 2026 farm policy changes where certainty is promised, everything is rebranded, markets get created and common sense exits stage left.

A new report from USDA's Office of Inspector General points out more than 20,000 employees across every agency left USDA in the first half of 2025. Most of the job losses were through a buyout program. The cuts hit some agencies harder than others.

A bipartisan group of more than 100 members of Congress last week sent a letter to the House and Senate agriculture committee leaders urging them to tell USDA to provide aid to specialty crop growers as soon as possible under FBA. A USDA spokesperson also suggested USDA...