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AEWR Upheld
Fruit Grower Report
A federal judge denied a United Farm Workers’ request to temporarily block the Trump administration’s revised wage rule for H-2A workers.
Food and Nutrition Administration and U.S. Beef Back to the U.K.
The Agribusiness Update
The USDA is restructuring its Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services mission, announcing plans to create a new Food and Nutrition Administration, and U.S. beef recently regained duty-free access to the United Kingdom as part of a deal reached by the Trump administration last year.
Ag Groups Happy with Farm Bill and More Tariffs Concerning
The Agribusiness Update
The House of Representatives passed the 2026 Farm Bill and ag groups are expressing their appreciation, and new efforts by the Trump administration to impose import tariffs are drawing concern across the ag industry.
USDA, NAWG Target Sky‑High Fertilizer Costs Hitting Wheat Growers
Line on Agriculture
High fertilizer costs in the agriculture industry are an ongoing issue. With a particular focus on the impact of countervailing duties on phosphate imports from Russia and Morocco. The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) argues that these duties have increased fertilizer costs for wheat growers by nearly $1 billion over five years, equating to approximately $20 per acre, which significantly affects profitability
Drought and AI Technology and FAA Drone Regulations
The Agribusiness Update
With California facing a below-average snowpack and recent warm temperatures some technologies and methods are emerging to help farmers adapt their irrigation practices, and the FAA is accelerating enforcement of drone regulations, a move that could have broad implications for farmers.
Georgia Peanut Commission Research Funding and FAA Drone Regulations
The Agribusiness Update
The Georgia Peanut Commission board of directors has approved over $764,000 in research project funding for 2025-26, and the FAA is accelerating enforcement of drone regulations, a move that could have broad implications for farmers.
Rules for groundwater users
Idaho Ag Today
IDWR finds 181,600 acre-foot shortfall of water in April 2026
Working Families Tax Cut and Sugar Producers Concern Over Imports
The Agribusiness Update
American cattle producers gathered in Washington, D.C., on Tax Day for a press conference highlighting the benefits of the Working Families Tax Cuts, and U.S. sugar producers raising alarms over a surge of subsidized foreign sugar imports they say threaten domestic industry.
Fixing Ag Labor
Washington State Farm Bureau Report
While it’s not the only challenge facing farmers and the ag industry today, ag labor reform is probably at the top of the list.
AEWR Recalculation
Fruit Grower Report
The Trump Administration’s revised Adverse Effect Wage Rate calculations are being praised by many in agriculture as the common-sense approach they’d been waiting for, now being tied to a less arbitrary standard.
Ag Labor and ICE
Fruit Grower Report
American Farm Bureau Federation’s Executive Vice President, Joby Young says concerns have risen since border security was strengthened under the Trump Administration.
Ag Labor and Big Needs
Fruit Grower Report
The need for labor reform is not the only challenge farmers are facing today, but it is one of the biggest.
Fixing Ag Labor
Washington State Farm Bureau Report
While it’s not the only challenge facing farmers and the ag industry today, ag labor reform is probably at the top of the list.
Vaccination Without the Guessing
California Ag Today
An upcoming free webinar helps anyone handling cattle improve vaccine delivery skills.
Ag Labor's Big Needs
Fruit Grower Report
The need for labor reform is not the only challenge farmers are facing today, but it is one of the biggest.
Apples to India
Fruit Grower Report
Washington Apple Commission president, Michael Schadler says one export market they’re feeling pretty good about, following some down years thanks to some hefty tariffs, is India.
Bell Named Washington FSA Director and Ag Economy Slide to Stop
The Agribusiness Update
The Trump Administration has appointed Patrick Bell as the new State Executive Director for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Washington State, and Ag economists are predicting the slide in the U.S. farm economy will stop in the new year.
Rollins Op-Ed
Idaho Ag Today
Nobody knows more than Idaho farmers how tough things have gotten economically.
China and Soybean Trade
Washington State Farm Bureau Report
Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for grains and oilseeds at CoBank, says a lot of speculation revolves around what the future trade relationship between China and the U.S. will look like.
China's Soybean Purchases and Gray Wolf Delisting
The Agribusiness Update
China has secured at least seven million tons of U.S. soybeans after multiple purchases in recent weeks, and the Pet and Livestock Protection Act passed the House with a bipartisan vote, which would reissue the 2020 rule delisting gray wolves.