Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins used a roundtable with farmers in
Missouri on Friday to announce a top-up payment for disaster losses in 2023 and
2024 that should double the amount of aid farmers receive. Rollins also talked
about the Trump administration's plans to boost domestic fertilizer production.
BUSDA Doubling SDRP Payments With Top-Up
Alberta's wintry spring snowstorms have made calving season difficult for
Cross Cattle Company. Protecting newborn calves and managing the land are
important for the ranchers.
BView From the Range
After 127 years in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri, the American
Royal is relocating to a new $375 million campus near Kansas Speedway in Kansas
City, Kansas, beginning with fall 2026 events. Full transition to the new
facility, which can house thousands of livestock and horses, is expected by
March 2029.
@^American Royal Leaving West Bottoms
Iowa will become the hub for a new USDA food safety center while members
of the department's economic team will also move more jobs to Missouri
locations. The moves will likely lead some more experienced staff and
leadership at USDA agencies to find employment elsewhere but also create
hundreds of job opportunities for younger people leaving college who want to
live in the Midwest or other locations in USDA's reorganization announcements.
7^USDA Details Agency Moves Out of DC
USDA signed a $300 million deal with Palantir Technologies to modernize
farm services, streamline paperwork and implement its "One Farmer, One File"
initiative.
BUSDA Signs $300M Deal With Palantir
