U.S. Forest Service Cuts and Australia to Accept U.S. Beef
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**With wildfire conditions in California expected to increase in coming months, state officials expressed concerns about staff and funding cuts at the U.S. Forest Service, a division of the USDA.
The proposed federal budget for 2026 includes a reduction in Forest Service spending, including fire suppression.
Patrick Wright, of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force says this creates concern in the fed’s ability to step up and meet our targets.
##It's like a summer prep school for future farmers from around the country, and it just wrapped up its 2025 session at Clemson University.
The South Carolina Commissioner’s School for Agriculture is a program that provides high school students with a week-long in-depth look at various ag and natural resources college majors and career paths.
The Commissioner’s School for Agriculture has graduated more than 600 students from 18 states.
**Tariff uncertainty continues to weigh on U.S. grain prices, and it’s causing a lot of countries to take a step back and re-evaluate, either at getting more negotiations done OR look at other routes to meet their needs.
Canada has a new tariff rate of 35%. Products included in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement are exempt.
Mexico has a deadline extension of 90 days before tariffs go into effect.
**For the first time in more than two decades, Australia
will accept shipments of fresh and frozen U.S. beef.
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Kent Bacus says this is a huge win.
He says Australia isn’t likely to be a huge export market, but it’s really about opportunities.
While the U.S. hasn’t exported beef to Australia since 2005, Australia has sold more than $28.7 billion worth of its beef to the U.S.
