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(Washington, D.C., December 31, 2025) — Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L.
(Washington, D.C., December 31, 2025) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the next phase in the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program (FBA), the eligible commodity per-acre payment rates. As announced earlier this month by...
Read More(Washington, D.C., December 30, 2025) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, signed a Secretary’s Memorandum (PDF, 970 KB) that puts forth a focused effort to establish new...
Read More(Washington, D.C., December 30, 2025) – As committed to under USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan (PDF, 1.2 MB) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today...
Read More(Washington, D.C., December 19, 2025) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins filed a notice to intervene in the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project proceedings currently being considered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This action will allow...
Read More(Washington, D.C., December 19, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins published an opinion piece in Fox News highlighting the strategic actions the Trump Administration is taking to address price fixing and protect American consumers.
(Washington, D.C., December 19, 2025) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer signed a Memorandum of...
Read MoreThis is the final post in the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)’s series documenting the ongoing staffing crisis across the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The scale and speed of staffing losses across the USDA, combined with the...
Read More(Washington, D.C., December 17, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published a joint opinion piece in Newsweek highlighting the Trump Administration's latest Make America Healthy Again...
Read MoreAs 2025 comes to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on a year that reshaped the food and farm policy landscape: from major disruptions in federal agencies to stalled policymaking in Washington, farmers and...
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