July 15, 2025

Agricultural Law Weekly Review—July 15, 2025

Today—Tues. July 15 @ Noon: Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: 2025 Federal Milk Marketing Order Reforms

New: Why Aren’t PFAS Compounds in Land Applied Biosolids Regulated By EPA?, Brook Duer

International Trade: Canada Passes Law Prohibiting Import Quota Increases, Tariff Reductions on Dairy, Poultry, Eggs 🌾
On June 26, 2025, King Charles III assented to Canadian Bill C-202 (PDF), which prohibits Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from increasing import quotas or reducing tariffs on dairy products, poultry and eggs. According to a speech from the bill’s sponsor, in passing the law, Canada “seeks to protect . . . [its] supply management system by preventing additional concessions on the import of dairy products, eggs and poultry.” The sponsor noted the “huge surplus of milk in the United States,” stating, “Wisconsin, in particular, has excess milk production, so it wants to have access to the Canadian market to ship this surplus.” The law became effective upon Royal Assent.

Wildlife Habitat: Pennsylvania Repeals Sunday Hunting Prohibition, Amends Hunting Trespass
On July 9, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro approved HB 1431 (PDF), now Act 36 of 2025, repealing the prohibition on Sunday hunting and allowing the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) to set hunting seasons that include Sundays. The bill passed with a 142-61 vote in the House and a 34-16 vote in the Senate, which had also considered a companion bill (SB 67). Also announced (PDF) by the governor, the law will require hunters to obtain written permission to hunt on a Sunday and amends a hunting trespass violation to include a person who “enters or remains on any land of another without authorization to do so, when the land is fenced or enclosed in a manner manifestly designed to exclude trespassers” or “when notice against trespass is given by the placement of identifying purple paint marks on trees or posts on the property.” Act 36 becomes effective September 7, 2025, after which “PGC will set new season dates and bag limits.

Wildlife Habitat: Pennsylvania Amends Game and Wildlife Code on Questioning, Agricultural Definitions, Game Commission Composition
On June 30, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro approved SB 518 (PDF), now Act 26 of 2025, which removed a Game and Wildlife Code provision that deemed unlawful the refusal to answer questions by a Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) representative. Additionally, the law provides that the terms “agricultural commodity” and “normal agricultural operation” are defined by the Pennsylvania Right to Farm Act and instructs the governor to “ensure that at least one member appointed to the commission represents the interest of agricultural commodities that pertain to normal agricultural operations and wildlife.” The law also directs the PGC to “establish a self-reporting system that allows a person assigned to remove deer for crop damage purposes to report each harvest to an officer of the commission via a toll-free telephone number, online application or publicly accessible Internet website.” The law becomes effective August 29, 2025.

National Agricultural Policy: USDA Announces National Farm Security Action Plan, Opens Reporting Portal
On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the agency’s National Farm Security Action Plan, along with an executive summary. In the plan, USDA describes several actions the agency will implement, across seven areas: (1) “Secure and Protect American Farmland,” (2) “Enhance Agricultural Supply Chain Resilience,” (3) “Protect” the “U.S. Nutrition Safety Net . . . from Fraud, Abuse, and Foreign Adversaries,” (4) “Enhance Research Security,” (5) “Evaluate USDA Programs to Ensure America First Policies,” (6) “Safeguard Plant and Animal Health,” and (7) “Protect Critical Infrastructure.” Among the listed actions, USDA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Treasury regarding “Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews concerning covered foreign transactions that involve farmland, agricultural businesses, agriculture biotechnology, [and] the agriculture industry” and “launched a new online portal for farmers, ranchers, and others to report possible false or failed reporting and compliance” regarding the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA).

Regulatory Policy: USDA Publishes Notice Interpreting ‘Federal Public Benefit’ to Include USDA Loans, Grants, Licenses
On July 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published in the Federal Register a notice (90 FR 30621) describing the agency’s “interpretation . . . for the term ‘Federal public benefit’” under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The notice first specifies that, under PRWORA, “aliens who are not ‘qualified aliens’ are not eligible for any ‘Federal public benefit,’” defined under the statute as “(A) any grant, contract, loan . . . or commercial license provided by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States” and “(B) any . . . food assistance . . . for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.”  The notice states, “USDA has not previously considered many USDA programs and activities to provide ‘Federal public benefits’; however, after a focused review of these programs, USDA has concluded that many such programs and activities clearly fall within the PRWORA definition of ‘Federal public benefits,’” including many grants and loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation, Farm Service Agency loans, Rural Development, and Natural Resources Conservation Service, and “licenses issued by the Secretary of Agriculture . . . to allow duty-free importation of certain dairy products otherwise subject to tariffs.” The notice states that it “supersedes any prior interpretation in any notice or other document issued by any USDA agency.”

Regulatory Policy: USDA Publishes Rule Removing Race- and Sex-Based ‘Socially Disadvantaged’ Designations
On July 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and several USDA agencies published in the Federal Register a final rule (90 FR 30555) stating that the department “has independently determined that it will no longer employ the race- and sex-based ‘socially disadvantaged’ designation to provide increased benefits based on race and sex in” USDA programs. The rule further states that, while “USDA has faced a long history of litigation stemming from allegations of discrimination in the administration of its farm loan and benefit programs . . . over the past several decades, USDA has undertaken substantial efforts to redress past injustices, culminating in comprehensive settlements, institutional reforms, and compensatory frameworks.” USDA states, “These actions collectively support the conclusion that past discrimination has been sufficiently addressed and that further race- and sex-based remedies are no longer necessary or legally justified under current circumstances.” The final rule lists the following amended programs under Code of Federal Regulations Title 7, Agriculture:

  • Pandemic Assistance Programs (Part 9)
  • General Administrative Regulations (Part 400)
  • Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (Part 636)
  • Indemnity Payment Programs (Part 760)
  • Farm Loan Programs; General Program Administration (Part 761)
  • Guaranteed Farm Loans (Part 762)
  • Inventory Property Management (Part 767)
  • Conservation Reserve Program (Part 1410)
  • Agricultural Management Assistance (Part 1465)
  • Wetlands Reserve Program (Part 1467)
  • Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (Part 1468)
  • Loans and Grants (Part 4280)
  • Guaranteed Loans (5001)

Agribusiness: New Indiana Grain Indemnity Law Becomes Effective
On July 1, 2025, Indiana’s SB 461 (PDF) became effective, updating the state’s Grain Indemnity Program language and procedures for obtaining and revoking grain licenses. Updates include changes to the required net worth to retain a license, a new informal meeting protocol, and a requirement that licensees with several facilities to maintain a license covering all the facilities they own. See also materials from An Overview of State Grain Dealer Statutes in the United States, Center Director Ross Pifer and Recent State Updates to Grain Indemnity, Emily Stone and Jeremy Garcia, Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr. (May 20, 2025).

Right to Farm: New Vermont Law Redefines ‘Generally Accepted Agricultural Practices’
On July 1, 2025, Vermont’s Act 61 (S. 45), “An act relating to protection from nuisance suits for agricultural activities,” became effective. According to a legislative summary, the “act provides that no agricultural activity shall be or become a nuisance when . . . conducted in accordance with generally accepted agricultural practices,” defined to include “the State water quality requirements for farms . . . the requirements of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation permits . . . the requirements of the State’s Rule for Control of Pesticides, and practices . . . consistent with . . . accepted customs and standards followed by similar operators of agricultural activities in the State.” To assert nuisance protection under the law, farmers “must be in good standing” with the state’s agricultural and natural resources agencies. Additionally, the law provides that “a farmer shall not receive nuisance protection if . . . the agricultural activity has a substantial adverse effect on health, safety, or welfare based upon objective, documented medical or scientific evidence that the agricultural activity was the proximate cause of the alleged effect; or a reasonable person would find that the agricultural activity was a proximate cause of a noxious and significant interference with the use and enjoyment of the neighboring property.” Plaintiffs must, “at least once, attempt to resolve the issue through mediation” before bringing a court action under the law.

Pesticides/Herbicides: Pennsylvania Superior Court Upholds $3.5 Million Jury Verdict for Roundup Plaintiff
On June 25, 2025, the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued an opinion affirming a $3.5 million jury verdict awarded in December 2023 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in favor of a plaintiff claiming that Monsanto/Bayer’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Martel v. Nouryon Chemicals LLC, No. 1259 EDA 2024 (Pa. Super case search); No. 210900084 (Philadelphia County docket access). Monsanto “challenge[d] the trial court’s denial of its post-trial motion for [judgment notwithstanding the verdict]” and claimed that “the trial court erred in denying its motion to transfer venue from Philadelphia County to Westmoreland County.” The court found that none of the issues raised by Monsanto on appeal entitled the company to relief. See also ALWR—May 13, 2025 “Pennsylvania Superior Court Upholds $175 Million Roundup Verdict Against Monsanto, Finds No FIFRA Preemption,” ALWR—Apr. 1, 2025 “Missouri Appellate Court Upholds Jury Verdict for Roundup Plaintiff” and “Georgia State Court Awards $2 Billion in Roundup Product Liability Case,” and ALWR—Nov. 5, 2024 “Massachusetts State Court Grants Summary Judgment for Monsanto on FIFRA Preemption.”

 

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Resources of Interest:

Southern Ag Today, Two Months In: Assessing the Movement on FDA’s Plan to ‘Phase Out’ Synthetic Dyes, Emily Stone—Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr. (July 4, 2025)

Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr., A New Era in Texas Real Estate: Foreign Investment Restriction Under New State Law, Ramie Parsons (July 8, 2025)

Ohio St. Univ. Ext. Farm Off. Blog, State Operating Budget Makes Changes to Ag Licenses, Permits, and Fees, Ellen Essman (July 9, 2025)

Ohio St. Univ. Ext. Farm Off. Blog, 2025 Reconciliation Farm Bill—Summary Overview, Carl Zulauf (July 11, 2025)

Iowa St. Univ. Ctr. Agric. Law & Tax’n, One Big Beautiful Bill Implements Significant Tax Package, Kristine A. Tidgren (July 9, 2025)

Univ. of Ill. Farm Policy News, Ag Legislators Look Ahead to ‘Skinny’ Farm Bill this Fall, Ryan Hanrahan (July 9, 2025)

Univ. of Ill. FarmDoc Daily, The Growing Role of H-2A Workers in U.S. Agriculture, Christian Valencia and Nick Paulson (July 9, 2025)

Univ. of Ill. Farm Policy News, SCOTUS Rejects Prop 12 Case, Seeks Government View on Roundup, Ryan Hanrahan (July 11, 2025)

Southern Ag Today, U.S. Agriculture Could Face New Challenges with President Trump’s Proposed Tariffs on Japan and South Korea, Andrew Muhammad—Univ. Tenn (July 10, 2025)

STATE ACTIONS—EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agriculture Department Warns Consumers to Discard Raw Milk from Byers Organic Dairy in Franklin County (July 11, 2025)

PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE AGENCIES (Pa. Bulletin Vol. 55, No. 28—July 12, 2025):  

Department of Agriculture

55 Pa.B. 4699 Notice: “General Quarantine Order; Influenza A Viruses in Ruminants; Mandatory Testing of Milk from Pennsylvania Dairy Farms”

Department of Environmental Protection

55 Pa.B. 4703 Notice: “Applications for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits and Water Quality Management (WQM) Permits Under the Clean Streams Law and Federal Clean Water Act”

55 Pa.B. 4771 Notice: “Availability of the Non-Regulatory Agenda”

PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE

HB 1431 “An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in game or wildlife protection, further providing for regulations and for unlawful activities; and, in hunting and furtaking, repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday prohibited, further providing for unlawful devices and methods and for trespass on private property while hunting and repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday without written permission.” Act No. 36 of 2025 (July 9, 2025)

HB 1713 “An Act amending . . . Economic Development Agency, Fiduciary and Lender Environmental Liability Protection Act, further providing for definitions.” Referred to Local Government [House] (July 10, 2025)

HB 1711 “An Act amending Title 62 (Procurement) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for concrete innovation; establishing the Performance Incentive Program; and promulgating regulations.” Referred to Environmental & Natural Resource Protection [House] (July 10, 2025)

FEDERAL ACTIONS—EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PRESS RELEASES

EPA Releases New Online Resources Giving Americans Total Transparency on the Issues of Geoengineering and Contrails (July 10, 2025)

EPA Stops Contaminated Water by Slaughterhouse After Public Complaints in Monroeville, NJ (July 9, 2025)

EPA Region 7 Hosts Farm Bureaus (July 9, 2025)

EPA Meets with Leaders of 30 Tribal Nations, Highlights Muscogee (Creek) Nation Brownfields Grant (July 9, 2025)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) PRESS RELEASES

Secretary Rollins Issues Statement Following Trump Administration Lawsuit Against California (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Continues to Expedite Federal Disaster Assistance for Central Texas Flood Victims (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Terminates Biden’s Racial and Gender Discrimination in USDA Programs (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Continues Effort to Strengthen National Security by Defending Farm Security (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Prevents Illegal Aliens from Receiving Taxpayer-Funded SNAP Benefits (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Continues Effort to Strengthen National Security by Defending Farm Security (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico (July 9, 2025)

Trump Administration Announces Expedited Congressionally Mandated Disaster Assistance for Farmers (July 9, 2025)

Farm Security is National Security: The Trump Administration Takes Bold Action to Elevate American Agriculture in National Security (July 8, 2025)

Judge Vaden Sworn in as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (July 7, 2025)

USDA Welcomes 2025 Class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows (July 7, 2025)

USDA AGENCY PRESS RELEASES

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

USDA Seeks Nominees for the American Egg Board (July 11, 2025)

USDA Seeks Nominees for the American Lamb Board (July 11, 2025)

USDA Seeks Nominees for the United Soybean Board (July 10, 2025)

USDA Seeks Nominees for the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board (July 10, 2025)

USDA Seeks Nominees for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board (July 10, 2025)

MS Announces Updates to Geographic Areas for Official Grain Inspection Services (July 7, 2025)

Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

New Durum Variety Creates Exciting Opportunities for U.S. Farmers and Baking Enthusiasts (July 8, 2025)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade Due to Further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico (July 9, 2025)

Economic Research Service (ERS)

The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report (July 10, 2025)

Farm Service Agency (FSA)

USDA Announces Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters (July 9, 2025)

Enrollment Period Begins for USDA’s Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program  (July 9, 2025)

Trump Administration Announces Expedited Congressionally Mandated Disaster Assistance for Farmers (July 9, 2025)

USDA Offers Disaster Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Minnesota Impacted by Recent Severe Weather (July 8, 2025)

Enrollment Period Begins for USDA’s Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program  (July 7, 2025)

USDA Designates 15 Counties in Michigan as Natural Disaster Areas Due to Drought, Excessive Rain, and Frost and Freeze (July 7, 2025)

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)

Secretary Rollins Continues to Expedite Federal Disaster Assistance for Central Texas Flood Victims (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Prevents Illegal Aliens from Receiving Taxpayer-Funded SNAP Benefits (July 10, 2025)

Secretary Rollins Continues Effort to Strengthen National Security by Defending Farm Security (July 10, 2025)

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Constituent Update (July 11, 2025)

Egg Product Sampling Data (July 7, 2025)

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Cecal Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Raw Beef Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Raw Pork Products Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Raw Poultry Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Product & Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Siluriformes Product Sampling (July 7, 2025)

Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

Export Sales to Mexico (July 11, 2025)

Export Sales to Unknown Destinations (July 10, 2025)

USDA Advances Trump Administration’s Farmer-First Agenda at UN FAO Conference (July 9, 2025)

Export Sales to the Philippines and Mexico (July 8, 2025)

USDA Welcomes Eight New Foreign Service Officers to Serve American Agriculture Overseas (July 7, 2025)

Export Sales to Mexico (July 7, 2025)

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

July Crop Production (July 11, 2025)

USDA to forecast grape production (July 7, 2025)

National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)

Cover Crops for Southern Farmers & Ranchers (July 11, 2025)

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

Protect New Jersey’s Wetlands with ACEP-WRE (July 11, 2025)

NRCS-New Jersey Now Accepting Applications for 2026 Program Offerings (July 11, 2025)

From Family Values to Family Legacy (July 10, 2025)

New NRCS Brochure Highlights Practices to Support Healthy Pastures (July 9, 2025)

NRCS Announces EQIP, AMA, and CSP program signup deadline August 29, 2025 (July 8, 2025)

Urban Ag with a Tropical Twist (July 8, 2025)

USDA Offers Disaster Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Minnesota Impacted by Recent Severe Weather (July 8, 2025)

Youth explore conservation through culture at Rolette County Day camp (July 8, 2025)

The Tennessee Highlands (July 8, 2025)

NRCS California Announces Additional Sign Up Deadline for Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Project (July 8, 2025)

Wetlands reserve project provides stable habitat for elk (July 8, 2025)

Daugherty Farm spends a decade with the NRCS (July 8, 2025)

Soil at Heart of Conservation Decisions (July 8, 2025)

Planting a New Future (July 7, 2025)

FEDERAL EXECUTIVE AGENCIES (Federal Register: July 7–11, 2025):

Department of Agriculture

90 FR 30837 Notice: “Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Reinstatement [Forest Service: Timber Sale Contract Operations and Administration]” (July 11, 2025)

90 FR 30555 Final rule: “Removal of Unconstitutional Preferences Based on Race and Sex in Response to Court Ruling” (July 10, 2025)

Agricultural Marketing Service

90 FR 30836 Notice; call for nominations: “National Organic Standards Board Call for Nominations” (July 11, 2025)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

90 FR 30035 Notice of availability: “Bayer CropScience: Availability of a Petition for a Determination of Nonregulated Status and Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment for MON 95275 Maize (Corn)” (July 8, 2025)

Environmental Protection Agency

90 FR 30929 Notice of receipt and request for comment: “Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for March 2025” (July 11, 2025)

90 FR 30932 Notice of receipt and request for comment: “Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for April 2025” (July 11, 2025)

90 FR 30640 Notice of a public meeting: “National Drinking Water Advisory Council; Meeting” (July 10, 2025)

90 FR 30216 Proposed rule; withdrawal: “Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical Substances (23-2.5e); Withdrawal” (July 9, 2025)

90 FR 29751 Final rule: “Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Partial Waiver of the 2024 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement” (July 7, 2025)

90 FR 29828 Notice of public listening sessions; request for public comment: “Establishment of Public Docket and Listening Sessions on Implementation Challenges Associated with Clean Water Act Section 401” (July 7, 2025)

90 FR 29866 Notice of proposed consent decree; request for public comment: “Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit” (July 7, 2025)

Farm Service Agency

90 FR 30561 Final rule: “Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) Stage 1” (July 10, 2025)

Food and Drug Administration

90 FR 30944 Notice: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Certification of Identity for Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests” (July 11, 2025)

Food and Nutrition Service

90 FR 29832 Notice: “Agency Information Collection Activities: Special Milk Program for Children” (July 7, 2025)

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

90 FR 30036 Notice and request for comments: “Notice of Intent to Extend and Revise a Previously Approved Information Collection” (July 8, 2025)

Rural Housing Service

90 FR 30037 Notice: “Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) for Fiscal Year 2025” (July 8, 2025)

U.S. HOUSE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE

H.R.4354 “To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a program to provide payments to producers experiencing certain crop losses as a result of a disaster.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (July 10, 2025)

H.R.4347 “To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide employment and training data grants, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (July 10, 2025)

H.R.4339 “To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a renewable energy grant program for territories of the United States, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Agriculture; Science, Space, and Technology; and Energy and Commerce (July 10, 2025)

H.R.4322 “To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide regular updates to Livestock Indemnity Program payment rates to reflect market prices, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (July 10, 2025)

H.R.4314 “To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits be used for the purchase of food products grown, produced, and manufactured in the United States.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (July 10, 2025)

H.R.4296 “To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to address emissions of certain greenhouse gasses and carbon storage through conservation incentive contracts.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (July 7, 2025)

H.R.4295 “To provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction projects on certain Federal land, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture (July 7, 2025)

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY  

S.2258 “A bill to prohibit the acquisition and ownership of agricultural land and residential real property by certain foreign entities, and for other purposes.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (July 10, 2025)

S.222 “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025” Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 111 (July 10, 2025)

S.2233 “A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to modify requirements for a meat food product of cattle to bear a ‘Product of U.S.A.’ label, and for other purposes.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (July 9, 2025)

S.2221 “A bill to establish requirements under which the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall carry out the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (July 9, 2025)

S.2215 “A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for floodplain easement restoration and management, and for other purposes.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (July 9, 2025)

S.2208 “A bill to provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction projects on certain Federal land, and for other purposes.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (July 8, 2025)

Agriculture-Related Legislative Hearings & Reports

U.S. House Ag. Comm., Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture: The Role of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (July 15, 2025, 10:00 AM ET)

U.S. House Ag. Comm., Financing Farm Operations: The Importance of Credit and Risk Management (July 16, 2025, 2:00 PM ET)

U.S. Senate Comm., Stakeholder Perspectives on Federal Oversight of Digital Commodities (July 15, 2025, 3:00 PM ET)

 

Contributors:
Audry Thompson—Staff Attorney
Christina Fraser—Research Assistant