The bill also strengthens EPA authority around pesticide labeling, which could prevent states from adopting their own versions of labels.

A new state law establishes protections for immigrant families against housing discrimination, aiding farmworkers.

The agency is eliminating the Regional Food Business Centers, a program meant to help small farms and other food businesses build local infrastructure.

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July 14, 2025 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have rescinded Biden-era guidelines that required schools administering federal meal programs to prohibit discrimination based on gender ...

Representatives have been trying to move the legislation for years, but that was before it became a focus of the MAHA movement.

In Carpinteria, farm staff told a local news station that 10 workers had been detained. There, federal agents threw ...

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In addition to the pork industry’s continuing challenges to Proposition 12, the Department of Justice is taking on another aspect of the state’s animal welfare laws.

Most avocados sold in the U.S. are imports from Mexico, where farming has environmental and human-rights impacts little known to consumers.

July 9, 2025 – Republican governors, members of Congress, and three other cabinet members joined Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins yesterday to announce a Trump administration plan to crack down ...