Tag: Agriculture

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

USDA will bring back timber and mineral production

Brooke Rollins · April 16, 2025 6:00 am

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks with reporters outside the White House, Thursday, April 10, 2025

Brooke Rollins reinforces escalation in egg prices started ‘under Joe Biden’

Jenny Goldsberry · April 13, 2025 11:23 am

Zimbabwe farm squatters burn a field of standing crops at Chirobi Farm, about 43 miles north of Harare, Nov. 11, 2000.

Zimbabwe begins compensating white farmers affected by often-violent land seizures

Elaine Mallon · April 11, 2025 5:56 pm

Brooke Rollins touts 50 countries are calling Trump to negotiate tariffs in sparring with CNN’s Jake Tapper

Asher Notheis · April 6, 2025 2:43 pm

USDA calls for greater accountability in SNAP delays

Elaine Mallon · April 2, 2025 7:37 pm

FILE - This June 18, 2009 file photo shows cows grazing in Rock County, Neb. Compared to the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases connected to global warming per calorie, puts out six times as much nitrogen for water pollution, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Bill Wolf, File)

Marlin Stutzman introduces bill to place 70% tariff on Australian wagyu beef

Elaine Mallon · April 1, 2025 2:31 pm

The high speed rail viaduct under construction over the San Joaquin River near Fresno, California, on Oct. 9, 2019. The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Feb. 12, 2020, bumped its overall cost estimate for completing the rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles to $80.3 billion, blaming inflationary increases and better cost projections for a $1.3 billion boost that still is smaller than in previous years.

Coastal California’s war on the Central Valley

Zachary Faria · April 1, 2025 2:00 pm

In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, soft drink and soda bottles are displayed in a refrigerator at El Ahorro market in San Francisco.

Soda companies push back against MAHA efforts to cut them out of food stamps

Lauren Green, Zach Halaschak · March 25, 2025 5:00 am

Clash continues around federal ag funding impacts in Illinois

Catrina Barker | The Center Square contributor · March 20, 2025 2:17 pm

Steve Niedbalski is seen chopping down his drought and heat stricken corn for feed Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Nashville, Ill. Farmers in parts of the Midwest, dealing with the worst drought in nearly 25 years, have given up hope for a corn crop and are mowing over their fields and baling the heat withered plants for livestock feed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Farmers rally at state capitol as industry leaders express concerns about overreach

Elyse Apel | The Center Square · March 18, 2025 2:31 pm

FILE - The Jefferson Memorial is seen amid cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, March 18, 2024, in Washington.

2025 DC Cherry Blossom Festival: Ultimate guide

Ross O'Keefe · March 13, 2025 7:00 am

Brooke Rollins attends a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington.

Egg prices plunge nearly $2, now lower than when Trump took office

Gabrielle M. Etzel · March 11, 2025 10:19 am