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Oregon’s Democrat Representatives have expressed their displeasure with the Trump Administration’s decision last week to withdraw from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement.  The statement read:    "We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s unilateral decision to withdraw from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement. This agreement enabled a pause ...

This week, the Meat Institute called for the processing sector, a critical part of the meat and poultry supply chain, to be included in the Trump administration’s plans for a stable and legal agriculture workforce.    “As reforms are considered, we urge the Trump administration to include meat and poultry packers and processors in the efforts to improve agriculture worker programs,” said Julie Ann

President Trump’s administration directed immigration officials to largely pause raids on farms, hotels, restaurants, and meatpacking plants.  Reuters said that information came from an internal email, a senior Trump official, and a person familiar with the matter.  The order to ...

After staying in the low- to mid-$60 per barrel range for the past several weeks, oil prices jumped up north of $70, thanks to the back-and-forth airstrikes between Israel and Iran.  Patrick DeHaan with Gasbuddy.com said this is the latest in a long list of issues that investors have had to digest this year, including tariffs, trade wars, and Russia/Ukraine.   “...

President Trump recently signed an order that doubled tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum products from 25% to 50%, to take effect immediately for the American market.  The U.S. is the largest importer of steel in the world after the European Union and is the world’s largest aluminum importer. It currently gets m...

President Trump, citing pressure from the agriculture and hospitality sectors, recently said farmworkers who are in the country illegally shouldn’t be deported and reiterated that the administration would be taking action on the issue.  ...

It’s an important time for the future of U.S. ag policy.  Joe Maxwell, Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Farm Action, said they put together policy statements because it’s a “historic time” for U.S. agriculture.   "While members of t...

On Thursday, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking the Biden Administration’s “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin” Memorandum.  President Trump...

Congress is considering significant cuts to funding for the Medicaid program, as well as cuts to benefits in the Affordable Care Act that could impact many rural Americans.  Don Hannaford, vice president for public policy at Rural Minds, which he describes as a nonprofit with the vision of a rural America with no more silence, suffering, or stigma surrounding mental illness, said rural Americans m

Senate Republicans are expected to extend key agricultural tax breaks but make other changes to the narrowly passed House version of the president’s tax and spending bill, which is the centerpiece of President Trump’s agenda.  Interest expen...