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Trump Claims That Strenuous Farm Work Just Comes 'Naturally' To Migrant Laborers He said a farmer told him that migrants don't get "bad backs," because "if they get a bad back, they die.”

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Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Trump official suggests Medicaid recipients, automation can replace immigrant workers. California farmers disagree As the Trump administration has carried out mass deportations, leaders have flip-flopped on whether to exempt some industries, including agriculture, from raids.

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2025’s Latest Hit to Farm Labor Costs H-2A farm labor costs soar in 2025 after job reclassifications raise wages. Learn how the DOL’s disaggregation rule impacts U.S. agriculture.

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California colleges address farm labor shortages with free videos Learn how California colleges are tackling farm labor shortages with free training videos for specialty crop production.

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15 Reasons These Tariffs Are a Mistake Smartly targeted tariffs can encourage businesses to build factories in the U.S. The administration's tariffs are not smartly targeted.

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USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms.

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Mindless USDA job cuts could raise food prices and unleash agricultural pests “These were highly trained individuals—inspectors, entomologists, taxonomists.”

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Are We Subsidizing the Next Pandemic? | Publications | Farm Forward

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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

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Farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill - an economic lifeline for about 150 area organic grain farmers.

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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

Married ladies who took your husbands last name, get a passport asap as voting laws are changing to force us to show a birth certificate or passport in order register or even to vote.
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Republican lawmakers no show as western Wisconsin farmers complain of Trump chaos, disruption  • Wisconsin Examiner Western Wisconsin farmers expressed concerns about Trump administration tariffs and budget cuts; Republican representatives failed to show

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Specialty crops advocacy

Imagine that. USAID buys billions of crops — farm products — from American farmers. Trump and Elmo have pissed off farmers. Again.

AFBF: New Tariffs Will Impact America’s Farmers

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I’m sure deporting people who produce food and slapping tariffs on countries that we buy massive amounts of food from will lower costs any day now.

Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...

Executive Order that caused Army Corps action to release reservoir water to Southern California is not only misguided it will ultimately harm Central Valley farmers.
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Ag policy analyst says expect a fast-track of actions from Trump - Brownfield Ag News A Washington D.C. policy analyst says President Trump’s actions during his first days in office are just the beginning of changes he expects to see. Jim Wiesemeyer tells Brownfield Trump has about a y...

Its not just the workers they are worried about. Trade, the Farm Bill and tariffs could crush Ag.

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Kennedy talks ag during confirmation hearing - Brownfield Ag News The Trump administration’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services was fielding questions about his stance on ag issues from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.  Robert F. Kenne...

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Evacuation orders lifted as Moss Landing Power Plant fire continues to burn Firefighters were allowing the Moss Landing fire to burn itself out, as Monterey County officials lifted evacuation orders for nearby neighborhoods Friday afternoon. Highway 1 remains closed indefinit...

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Was a tough couple of days for us on the Monterey Bay at Moss Landing, CA

'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country ‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.

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Celebrating New Years is hard this time. Anyone else dreading 2025?

Mass Deportation and What That May Mean for The Agriculture Industry The President-Elect's threat of a blanket deportation of all undocumented immigrants has the agriculture industry a little nervous about what

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