Governmental Regulations

Max McKinney’s 6’x15’ shed on private farmland has been deemed a zoning violation by Washburn County, Wis., officials.

Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, USDA will start reopening the ports for cattle, bison and equine.

The groups are urging the administration to “formally include farmers, ranchers and food producers in a collaborative stakeholder process.” An action report — a follow-up to the MAHA report released in May — is due by August 12.

The move would increase biomass-based diesel requirements, from 3.35 billion gallons in 2025 to 5.61 billion gallons in 2026, supporting American row-crop growers in the process.

USDA’s Brooke Rollins jumps to defend farm facing erasure by eminent domain.

A federal judge struck down government’s forced intrusions onto private property in Kansas.

Government officials claim the right to monitor citizens on private property without warrant.

There are more than 36,000 registered pesticide applicators in Illinois — of which 11,000 are farmers.

The commission now has about 80 days to create a strategy for how the federal government should respond to the report findings, per President Trump’s original order in February.

USDA’s Brooke Rollins and more than 300 farm groups went to bat for agriculture leading up to the report’s release on Thursday. Yet farmers were excluded from having a voice at the table in the development process. That needs to change before the next report – which will provide policy recommendations – is issued within the next 80 days.