June 17, 2025
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 17, 2025
This week: An Overview of State Grain Dealer Statutes in the United States, Wed. June 18 at noon. Center Director Ross Pifer presents with the National Agricultural Law Center.
Next week: Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration, Fri. June 27 at noon. Attorney CLE available.
Technology: Federal Court Allows Deere Antitrust Case to Proceed 🌾
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion and order denying Deere & Company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and allowing the advancement of a case alleging that the company’s repair restrictions violate federal and state antitrust laws. Federal Trade Commission v. Deere & Company, No. 3:25-cv-50017. The court determined that, although “Deere leaves repair services and parts sales to Authorized Dealers,” the company “‘reaps massive profits’ from its parts business, which relies on those Authorized Dealers’ repairs.” The court further reasoned that “because only Deere can create and license the ADVISOR [repair] tool, it entirely controls who (and how many) Dealers may perform restricted repairs and, by extension, how much the Dealers can charge,” concluding, “ Because the Governments . . . assert that Deere can control prices and exclude competition, it adequately alleges that Deere holds market power.” The court additionally noted, “Notice pleading requires fair notice to defendants. It can’t be reasonably argued that Deere is scratching its metaphorical head and muttering, ‘I wonder what the Governments are complaining about?’ If Deere’s position is that it knows what the Governments are complaining about but that those complaints are not legally cognizable, the Court disagrees.” For background, see ALWR—Jan. 21, 2025, “FTC, Illinois and Minnesota File Antitrust Complaint Against Deere for ‘Service ADVISOR’ Limited Distribution.”
Environmental Policy: Federal Court Holds ‘Swampbuster’ Constitutional
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa issued an opinion granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Farm Bill’s wetland conservation “Swampbuster” provision, which disqualifies from federal farm benefits anyone who converts certified wetlands. CTM Holdings, LLC v. U.S. Dep’t Agric., No. 6:24-cv-02016. For more on the case, see Brigit Rollins, Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional, Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr. (June 10, 2025).
Agricultural Labor: Maine Law Applies State Minimum Wage to Agricultural Workers
On June 10, 2025, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law S.P. 273-L.D. 589 (PDF), which, beginning January 1, 2026, applies the state’s $14.65 minimum hourly wage to agricultural workers and provides that, each year, the minimum wage “must be increased by the increase in the cost of living.” Additionally, the requires employers “to keep a true and accurate record of the hours worked by each employee and the wages paid to each employee” and authorizes the state’s Department of Labor “to bring an action for unpaid wages on behalf of an employee for unpaid minimum hourly wages.” The law exempts members of an employer’s family “who reside with and are dependent upon the employer.” While the initial draft of the law phased in overtime payments of 1 ½ times the regular hourly rate, the final law does not provide for overtime pay.
Agribusiness: West Virginia Passes Foreign Land Ownership Law
On April 28, 2025, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey signed into law H.B. 2961 (PDF), effective July 11, 2025, which prohibits certain foreign parties from “acquir[ing] or own[ing] directly or indirectly, any interest in any real estate in th[e] state, including mineral rights.” For more on the law, see New Addition to Foreign Ownership Law Trend: West Virginia Enacts Restriction on Foreign-Controlled Entities, Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr. (June 3, 2025).
- Webinar Aug. 22, 2025, Understanding the Basics of Foreign Agricultural Land Ownership Laws
Environmental Policy: Iowa Governor Vetoes Carbon Dioxide, Pipeline Bill
On June 11, 2025, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds vetoed H.F. 639 (PDF), which would have established regulations for “hazardous liquid pipelines,” including those carrying liquefied carbon dioxide. According to the governor’s veto letter, “the bill would block a major pipeline project that uses only voluntary easements.” The governor noted a current project “in the final stages of connecting to a CO2 pipeline with not a single acre condemned” but stated that the bill’s “new insurance mandates and . . . 25-year limit . . . would effectively kill the project—despite the millions that have already been spent on its development.” However, the governor stated that she would ask the state’s Utilities Commission to implement two provisions of the bill immediately: “requiring all commissioners to be present for live testimony” and “ensuring that at least one commissioner attends every informational meeting,” which the governor stated, “will improve oversight and transparency now, without the need for new legislation.” See also materials and recording from Understanding the Basics of Pennsylvania’s Carbon Sequestration Law.
Biotechnology: FDA Issues ‘No Questions Letter’ For Wildtype’s Cell-Cultured Salmon
On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter to cellular agriculture company Wildtype Inc. stating that the agency “ha[s] no questions at this time regarding Wildtype’s conclusion that foods . . . containing [the company’s] cultured salmon cell material . . . are as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods” “and would not contain substances that adulterate the food.” However, FDA stated, “The use of the term ‘cultured salmon cell material’ in this letter is not our recommendation of that term as an appropriate common or usual name for declaring the substance in accordance with FDA’s labeling requirements” and “note[d] that 21 CFR 102.5(a) outlines general principles that FDA considers when establishing a common or usual name for nonstandardized foods which Wildtype may want to consider.” Additionally, FDA stated that it “considered only whether the levels of nutrients in the harvested cellular material are safe and not their impact on nutritional quality of the food supply” and noted that “it is Wildtype’s continuing responsibility to ensure that foods it markets are safe, wholesome, and in compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.” FDA advised, “Should new production procedures, cell lines, or substances employed during production be used that could be relevant to the safety of the food, we strongly recommend that Wildtype contact FDA.”
Dairy Policy: USDA Publishes Milk, Yogurt Labeling Claims Study
On June 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) published a study titled, “The Prevalence of Competing and Complementary Claims on U.S. Food Product Packaging: A Case Study of Claims on Milk and Yogurt.” The study analyzed the frequency of eleven label claims on milk and yogurt products: (1) “Fat claims,” (2) “Sugar and sweetener claims,” (3) “Digestive benefits claims,” (4) “Claims that high levels of attributes promote health,” such as “dairy products being a good source of calcium and protein” or “claims that highlight the addition of omega-3 fatty acids,” (5) “Claims that low levels of attributes promote health,” such as “low or relatively low levels of calories and cholesterol,” (6) “No-hormone claims,” (7) “Natural claims,” which includes “100-percent natural, no artificial ingredients, no added preservatives, no artificial preservatives, and no preservatives,” (8) “USDA Organic,” (9) “Animal welfare claims,” such as “pasture raised, grass fed, and humane certified,” (10) “Non-GMO claims,” and (11) “Kosher.” According to the study, “the five claims that spotlight farm production methods represented 44.3 percent of all claim types . . . identified on milk and 30.4 percent of all claim types . . . identified on yogurt products” while “the most common claims were related to a product’s fat content and if a product was certified kosher.”
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National Agricultural Law Center Partner Webinars. Usually held on the third Wednesday of the month, these webinars are freely available to the general public and are typically designed to be appropriate for both attorneys and non-attorneys.
- June 18, 2025, An Overview of State Grain Dealer Statutes in the United States, Ross Pifer
Conservation Cornerstone: Pennsylvania Right to Farm Laws. Center staff attorney Brook Duer presents with Penn State Extension’s Conservation Cornerstone webinar series.
- June 24, 2025, 8:30–9:30 am
Understanding Agricultural Law Series. A free monthly Zoom webinar series for agricultural and rural business advisors. One hour of substantive CLE credit available for Pennsylvania-licensed attorneys at no charge. All events on Fridays, noon–1 pm (ET). Upcoming:
- June 27, 2025, Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration
- July 25, 2025, Understanding the Basics of ADA Compliance for Agritourism Operations
- August 22, 2025, Understanding the Basics of Foreign Agricultural Land Ownership Laws
Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar Series. A free quarterly Zoom webinar series covering dairy industry legal and regulatory developments with an in-depth focus topic. One hour of substantive CLE credit available for Pennsylvania-licensed attorneys at no charge. All events on Tuesdays, noon–1 pm (ET). Upcoming:
- July 15, 2025, July 2025 Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar
Penn State Solar Law Symposium. Hosted by Penn State Extension and the Penn State Center for Energy Law and Policy, co-sponsored by Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law. 6 PACLE credits available.
- September 21, 2025, 10:00am–4:45pm. Online.
2025 Agricultural Law Symposium. In-person at Penn State Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, Pa. This day-long symposium will offer 6 CLE credits to Pennsylvania-licensed attorneys.
- September 18, 2025—REGISTRATION AVAILABLE
Resources of Interest:
Nat’l Agric. Law Ctr., Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional, Bridgit Rollins (June 10, 2025)
Agric. Law & Tax’n Blog, Agroterrorism and the Law—How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?, Roger A. McEowen (June 8, 2025)
Ohio St. Univ. Ext. Farm Off. Blog, “Let the Buyer Beware” Doctrine Applies to Real Estate Sales in Ohio, Peggy Kirk Hall (June 10, 2025)
Tex. A&M Agric. Law Blog, How to Find an Agricultural Lawyer, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet (June 9, 2025)
Iowa St. Univ. Ctr. Agric. Law & Tax’n, Agricultural Provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill, Kristine A. Tidgren (June 10, 2025)
Southern Ag Today, Understanding the Section 199A Tax Deduction, Phil Kenkel—Okla. State Univ. Ext. (June 6, 2025)
Southern Ag Today, Just How Bipartisan are Farm Bills?, Bart Fischer (Tex. A&M Univ.) and Joe Outlaw—Tex. A&M Univ. (June 5, 2025)
STATE ACTIONS—EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE
PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PRESS RELEASES
Pennsylvania Invests Nearly $10 Million to Ensure That 35 Farms, 2,672 Prime Farmland Acres in 18 Counties Stay Farms Forever (June 12, 2025)
Shapiro Administration Highlights the Consequences SNAP Funding Cuts Will Have for Pennsylvania Farmers and Families (June 10, 2025)
PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE AGENCIES (Pa. Bulletin Vol. 55, No. 24—June 14, 2025):
Department of Environmental Protection
55 Pa.B. 4044 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. 4127 Notice: “OSM 11(0826)104.1, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project, Spangler Athletic Field, Northern Cambria Borough, Cambria County”
55 Pa.B. 4128 Notice: “Draft Stream Evaluation Reports; Available for Public Comment”
55 Pa.B. 4159 Notice: “Environmental Assessment Approvals for PENNVEST Funding Consideration”
55 Pa.B. 4129 Notice: “Environmental Justice Advisory Board Meeting Cancellation”
55 Pa.B. 4129 Notice: “Reorganization and Rescission of Water Program Technical Guidance and Permit Documents on eLibrary”
55 Pa.B. 4140 Notice: “Water Resources Advisory Committee Meeting Cancellation”
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
HB 661 [County Milk Contracts for Prisons] “An Act amending Title 16 (Counties) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in contracts, further providing for contract procedures, terms and bonds and advertising for bids.” Re-committed to Rules [House] (June 11, 2025)
SB 109 “An Act amending . . . the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act, further providing for definitions and for projects affecting submerged lands of the Commonwealth.” Referred to Environmental & Natural Resource Protection [House] (June 11, 2025)
HB 1429 “An Act amending . . . the Human Services Code, in public assistance, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards.” Remarks see House Journal Page [House] (June 9, 2025)
HB 1567 “An Act providing for power plant host community benefit agreements between municipalities and owners of certain electric generating facilities, for power plant host community impact fees paid by affected facilities and fee uses; establishing public participation requirements; and providing for administrative fees and for duties of the Department of Environmental Protection.” Referred to Environmental & Natural Resource Protection [House] (June 9, 2025)
FEDERAL ACTIONS—EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PRESS RELEASES
Registration Open for National Brownfields Training Conference, August 5-8 in Chicago (June 12, 2025)
Senate Confirms David Fotouhi as President Trump’s EPA Deputy Administrator (June 10, 2025)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) PRESS RELEASES
Secretary Rollins Applauds Executive Action to Bolster Wildfire Response (June 12, 2025)
Secretary Rollins Signs the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report (June 12, 2025)
Secretary Rollins Applauds Judge Stephen Vaden on His Senate Confirmation (June 11, 2025)
Secretary Rollins Concludes Trade Delegation to Italy, Advocates for American Agricultural Market Access and Industry Across Europe (June 6, 2025)
USDA AGENCY PRESS RELEASES
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Help Safeguard America’s Plants: Apply for PPA 7721 Funding (June 11, 2025)
Farm Service Agency (FSA)
USDA Announces Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters (June 13, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in Vermont (June 13, 2025)
USDA Designates Several Nebraska Counties as Natural Disaster Areas Due to Drought (June 13, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in Florida (June 12, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in North Carolina (June 12, 2025)
USDA Approves Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance for All Counties in Georgia to Address Southern Pine Beetle Damage (June 12, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in Virginia (June 12, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in Georgia (June 12, 2025)
USDA Extends Emergency Conservation and Emergency Forest Restoration Assistance Deadline for Hurricane Recovery in Pennsylvania (June 12, 2025)
USDA Designates Several Nebraska Counties as Natural Disaster Areas Due to Drought (June 11, 2025)
USDA Designates Six Texas Counties as Natural Disaster Areas (June 11, 2025)
USDA Designates Montgomery County Pennsylvania as Natural Disaster Area – 6 Contiguous Pennsylvania Counties Also Eligible for Assistance (June 11, 2025)
USDA Designates Five Oklahoma Counties as Natural Disaster Areas (June 11, 2025)
USDA Designates 3 Maryland Counties as Natural Disaster Areas – 6 Contiguous Pennsylvania Counties Also Eligible for Assistance (June 11, 2025)
USDA Designates Colorado Counties (S5997) as Natural Disaster Areas Due to Drought (Fast-Track) (June 11, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Steve Brown to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Indiana (June 10, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Robert Sullivan to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Rhode Island (June 10, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Chris McDonald to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Mississippi (June 10, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Brad Thykeson to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in North Dakota (June 9, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Richard Ebert to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Pennsylvania (June 9, 2025)
USDA Reminds Pennsylvania Producers to File Crop Acreage Reports (June 9, 2025)
USDA Reminds New York Producers to Report Prevented Planting, Failed Acres and File Crop Acreage Reports (June 9, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Roger Chase to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in South Dakota (June 6, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Donald Jones to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Ohio (June 6, 2025)
Trump Administration Appoints Tommy Higgins to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Maine (June 6, 2025)
Food and Nutrition Service:
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Constituent Update—June 6, 2025 (June 6, 2025)
Individual State MPI Program Audit Reports (June 6, 2025)
Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
USDA Launches Agribusiness Trade Mission to Peru (June 9, 2025)
National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
June Crop Production (June 12, 2025)
USDA to Conduct Annual Mushroom Survey (June 11, 2025)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
NIFA Invests Additional $570K in Response to Hurricane Helene Flooding (June 11, 2025)
Finding Solutions to Plastic Pollution (June 9, 2025)
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
A Day of Learning at Seedleaf Head Water Farm (June 12, 2025)
USDA Encourages Producers to Prepare for the 2025 Hurricane Season (June 12, 2025)
Rising from the Waters: A Journey to Recovery (June 12, 2025)
Columbia County Orchard and NRCS Combat Erosion and Enhance Pollinator Habitat (June 11, 2025)
USDA-NRCS State Technical Committee meeting set for June 18 (June 11, 2025)
Generations of Conservation (June 11, 2025)
Local teens take top honors at the 31st Rhode Island Envirothon (June 11, 2025)
USDA-NRCS Announces Second Sign-Up for Financial Assistance along the South Fork Republican River (June 10, 2025)
Application Deadline for Producers Interested in Soil Carbon Amendments (336) (June 9, 2025)
FEDERAL EXECUTIVE AGENCIES (Federal Register: June 6-13, 2025):
Department of Agriculture
90 FR 24562 Comment Request: “Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request [Food and Nutrition Service: WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation]” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24267 Notice: “Guidance on Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement” (June 9, 2025)
Agricultural Marketing Service
90 FR 24995 Proposed Rule: “Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order” (June 13, 2025)
90 FR 24733 Final Rule: “Marketing Order Regulating the Handling of Spearmint Oil Produced in the Far West; Revision of the Salable Quantity and Allotment Percentage for Class 3 (Native) Spearmint Oil for the 2024-2025 Marketing Year” (June 12, 2025)
90 FR 24353 Proposed Rule: “Updates to the Popcorn Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order” (June 10, 2025)
Environmental Protection Agency
90 FR 25043 Notice of Availability: “Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability” (June 13, 2025)
90 FR 24796 Notice of intent to scope environmental review document: “Dredged Material Management Options in the New York Bight” (June 12, 2025)
90 FR 24515 Rule: “Utah: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions and Incorporation by Reference” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24549 Proposed rule: “Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Revisions to Regulation for Control of Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emissions” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24554 Proposed rule: “Air Plan Approval; Delaware; Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program Certification” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24559 Proposed rule: “Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; 2024 Amendments to West Virginia’s Ambient Air Quality Standards” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24608 Notice: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Transportation and Climate Division Grant Program Reporting Templates: Supplemental Project Application Template and Project Reporting Templates for Diesel Emission Reduction Act, Clean School Bus, Clean Heavy Duty and Clean Ports Grant Programs (Revision)” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24514 Correcting amendments: “Air Plan Approval; Arizona; Maricopa County Air Quality Department; Correction” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24517 Final Rule; correction: “Fuels Regulatory Streamlining Sampling and Testing Updates; Correction” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24515 Final authorization: “Utah: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions and Incorporation by Reference” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24348 Final Rule: “Pesticide Tolerances; Implementing Registration Review Decisions for Certain Pesticides (Capric (Decanoic) Acid, Caprylic (Octanoic) Acid, and Pelargonic (Nonanoic) Acid)” (June 10, 2025)
90 FR 24399 Notice: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Renewal of an Existing ICR Collection and Request for Comment; Access to TSCA Confidential Business Information Under TSCA Section 14(d)(4), (5), and (6)” (June 10, 2025)
90 FR 24400 Notice: “Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) Peer Review; High-Priority Phthalates; Draft Risk Evaluations and Technical Support Documents; Notice of SACC Meeting; Availability of Draft Documents and Request for Comment” (June 10, 2025)
90 FR 24228 Final Rule: “Certain Existing Chemicals; Request To Submit Unpublished Health and Safety Data Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); Extension of Submission Deadline” (June 9, 2025)
90 FR 24259 Proposed Rule: “Pesticide Tolerances; Implementing Registration Review Decisions for Certain Pesticides; Hydrogen Cyanide, et al.” (June 9, 2025)
Farm Service Agency
90 FR 24955 Final rule; notice of approval of Information Collection Request: “Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) 2023 and 2024; Approval of Information Collection Request” (June 13, 2025)
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
90 FR 24562 Notice; request for comment: “Notice of Request for Renewal of a Currently Approved Information Collection; Interpretations of Statutory and Regulatory Provisions and Written Interpretations of FCIC Procedures” (June 11, 2025)
Fish and Wildlife Service
90 FR 24378 Notification of findings: “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Two Species Not Warranted for Listing as Endangered or Threatened Species” (June 10, 2025)
90 FR 24285 Notice; request for information and comments: “Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 10(a) Program Implementation; Development of Conservation Benefit Agreements and Habitat Conservation Plans, and Issuance of Associated Enhancement of Survival and Incidental Take Permits” (June 9, 2025)
90 FR 24228 Final Rule: “Certain Existing Chemicals; Request To Submit Unpublished Health and Safety Data Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); Extension of Submission Deadline” (June 9, 2025)
Food and Drug Administration
90 FR 25050 Notice: “Request for Nominations for Individuals and Consumer Organizations for Advisory Committees” (June 13, 2025)
90 FR 25055 Notice; establishment of a public docket; request for comments: “Pediatric Advisory Committee (PAC); Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Comments” (June 13, 2025)
90 FR 25056 Notice; request for comments: “Rare Disease Innovation, Science, and Exploration Public Workshop Series; Request for Comments” (June 13, 2025)
90 FR 24540 Proposed amendment; proposed order; request for comments: “Hematology and Pathology Devices; Reclassification of In Situ Hybridization Test Systems for Use with a Corresponding Approved Oncology Therapeutic Product” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24633 Notice of public meeting; request for comments: “Reauthorization of the Medical Device User Fee Amendments; Public Meeting; Request for Comments” (June 11, 2025)
90 FR 24280 Notice: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Medical Device User Fee Small Business Qualification and Certification” (June 9, 2025)
Food and Nutrition Service
90 FR 24507 Final rule: “Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Rescission of Obsolete Regulatory Provisions” (June 11, 2025)
U.S. HOUSE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
H.R.3991 “To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include as a high-priority research and extension area research on microplastics and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on farmland.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 12, 2025)
H.R.3982 “To establish a Tariff Response and Damages to Exports fund, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Ways and Means and Agriculture (June 12, 2025)
H.R.3979 “To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide information and education tools to farmers on the cost savings, energy savings, water conservation, and carbon emissions reductions that can be realized through the use of energy-efficient pumping systems, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 12, 2025)
H.R.3956 “To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into self-determination contracts and self-governance agreements with Indian entities to administer the food distribution program on Indian reservations.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 12, 2025)
H.R.3946 “To amend the Animal Welfare Act to provide for greater protection of roosters, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 12, 2025)
H.R.3937 “To provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources (June 11, 2025)
H.R.3930 “To provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System.” Referred to the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources (June 11, 2025)
H.R.3924 “To direct the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a quadrennial fire review, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Natural Resources; Agriculture; Science, Space, and Technology; and Transportation and Infrastructure (June 11, 2025)
H.R.3922 “To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on existing programs, rules, and authorities that enable or inhibit wildfire mitigation across land ownership boundaries on Federal and non-Federal land, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture (June 11, 2025)
H.R.3915 “To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to reauthorize the animal disease prevention and management programs, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 11, 2025)
H.R.3889 “To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western and southeastern United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Indian Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Natural Resources; Agriculture; and Energy and Commerce (June 10, 2025)
H.R.3887 “To amend of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 relating to punishment and compensation for the theft of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 10, 2025)
H.R.3633 “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32–19 (June 10, 2025)
H.R.3444 “Tribal Self-Determination and Co-Management in Forestry Act of 2025” Subcommittee Hearings Held (June 10, 2025)
H.R.1045 “Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025” Subcommittee Hearings Held (June 10, 2025)
H.R.3824 “To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Agriculture (June 6, 2025)
H.R.3806 “To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report on strategies to combat the New World screwworm and enhance the United States’ preparedness and response capabilities against potential outbreaks.” Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture (June 6, 2025)
U.S. SENATE AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY COMMITTEE
S.1999 “A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for improved coordination between the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.” Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (June 9, 2025)
Contributors:
Audry Thompson—Staff Attorney
Christina Fraser—Research Assistant
