Nutrition Program for Mothers and Infants May Run Out of Money Within Weeks

Nearly 41 percent of U.S.-born infants participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which may not have enough funding for an extended government shutdown.

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Soybeans Were America’s Biggest Export to China. Now, Sales Are Down to Zero.

China stopped buying soybeans from America in May, placing a retaliatory tariff on the bumper crop after President Trump increased levies on goods from China.

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Federal Judge Declines to Reinstate Government Watchdogs Fired by Trump

The judge ruled that President Trump had clearly violated the law, but that the impact did not rise to an “irreparable harm” that would justify her intervention.

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Agriculture Department Picks Ben Carson to Be a Policy Adviser

He has endorsed the MAHA movement’s goals and agreeing with a policy allowing states to stop people from using food stamps for certain junk foods and soda.

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Screwworm Case Detected Less Than 70 Miles from U.S.-Mexico Border

The flesh-eating parasite was detected in northern Mexico. It is the northernmost case of the livestock infection, which was eradicated from the United States in the 1960s.

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Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

The move strips the government of its main gauge of hunger in America, and will impede efforts to track the impact of aid cuts.

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States Grapple With Fundamental Change in Food Stamps

Whether states can find the money in their budgets — billions of dollars in some cases — will have wide-ranging, and likely uneven, consequences for some 42 million recipients.

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As Farm Aid Reaches 40 Years, It Deals With Familiar Farming Crises

Saturday’s star-studded concert will air on TV for the first time in years as the hotline for farmers gets more calls about a mix of complicated problems.

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John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers

The tractor maker said that sales were down and that higher metal tariffs would cost it $600 million, while American farmers face dwindling overseas demand for some crops.

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Human Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Reported in Maryland

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock.

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