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The Latest Breaking News from Agriculture

Former Sid Miller allies told police the ag commissioner feared the DEA, told a friend to get rid of marijuana

Miller denies wrongdoing after allegations surfaced during an investigation into one of his aides, who pled guilty to bribery. The agriculture commissioner has not been charged with a crime.

The Texas Tribune

Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.

The Conversation

Republicans ready assault on California animal welfare law - Roll Call

California's Proposition 12 and federal efforts to counter it have sparked strong emotions on both sides of the issue.

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‘ICE Barbie’ gets a challenger: AG Secretary Brooke Rollins takes to X to show off snake-hunting adventure

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is pulling a page out of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s playbook with a photo-op from her recent hunting trip

The Independent UK

House passes three crypto bills with varying Democratic support - Roll Call

House passage of the measures marks a breakthrough for the digital assets sector and sends one of the bills to President Donald Trump.

Roll Call

Senate GOP pushes spending bills as Democratic anger builds - Roll Call

Senate GOP appropriators to bring a package of spending bills to the floor before the August recess, Chair Susan Collins said Thursday.

Roll Call

Crypto, Defense bills back on track after Oval Office talk - Roll Call

Three cryptocurrency bills and the Defense spending bill appeared ready for House floor action after stalling out for much of Tuesday.

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Trump delivers brutal blow to farmworkers amid fierce White House immigration battle

All in the name of making America great again.

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SCOTUS Hands Trump A Power Play—But Are The Checks Vanishing?

The Trump administration is now free to proceed with planning "reductions in force" at departments like Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and the State Department.

International Business Times

Can Trump’s exemptions for undocumented farm laborers succeed without angering MAGA?

President planning program to support agricultural laborers in the U.S. illegally – but risks angering MAGA

The Independent UK

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

LiveScience

Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of Gloom

While Trump considers expelling undocumented farm workers, California’s economy hangs in the balance.

Capital & Main

America set to open Texas ‘fly factory’ in bid to breed millions of insects

The plan is to breed millions of the insects near the border with Mexico

The Independent UK

Trump U-turn on deporting farm workers came after fury from Noem and Miller, report claims

Trump’s policy barring raids on agriculture and hospitality industries was short-lived

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The Texas Tribune

THC ban will destroy Texas' hemp agriculture industry, farmers say

While state leaders say growers can still produce industrial hemp, farmers say they will quit growing the plant altogether under a total THC ban.

Euronews

What's behind farmers' protests returning to the streets of Brussels?

European farmers are set to return to the streets of Brussels, nearly a year after their major demonstrations. Their main concern: the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the risk of a fragmented, "27-speed" agriculture system across the EU.

Euronews

Commissioner Hansen presents plan to cut farming bureaucracy in EU

European Commissioner for Agriculture Christophe Hansen presented his simplification plan to help farmers during a meeting organised by Euronews.

The Independent UK

‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture

X users are scoffing at the banner, saying it has a ‘North Korean aesthetic’ and gives off ‘Saddam Hussein vibes’

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Latin Times

Imports from Mexico Halted After Flesh-Eating Parasite Found in Livestock

Imports from Mexico have been halted following the detection of New World screwworm maggots in livestock coming into the U.S.

The Independent UK

What to know about screwworm threats as US suspends livestock imports from Mexico over flesh eating maggot

The deadly parasitic flies use their mouth hooks to burrow into open wounds

Euronews

The end of the CAP as we know it? Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' senior agriculture and health reporter Gerardo Fortuna

The Texas Tribune

In visit to Texas, RFK Jr. said autism, diabetes deserve more attention than measles

During a visit to College Station, the U.S. health secretary said Europe has a worse track record with the virus, which gets too much media attention.

Salon

The US could get screwed on screwworm

For years, a multi-country effort kept screwworm at bay. The US picking fights with Mexico isn't helping

Reason

Milton Friedman's Warning to DOGE

The Nobel Prize-winning economist says the Iron Triangle of Politics must be defeated to cut down the government for good.

Fortune

A bailout for farmers caught in Trump’s trade war is already being discussed. ‘If we don’t get something, it will be quite a disaster”

During Trump's first term, farmers got $23 billion after an earlier round of tariffs.

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