SNAP Benefits Are Resuming as Government Reopens After Shutdown

Several states have restarted food stamp payments, but millions of Americans are still awaiting the November deposits that the Trump administration resisted paying out in full.

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Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda

The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need.

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Trump Says He Wants to Give Aid to Struggling Farmers

The president said some revenue from tariffs would go to crop farmers, but the agriculture secretary said a plan wasn’t yet ready.

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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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Former F.D.A. Chief Backs Kennedy’s War on Ultraprocessed Food

Dr. David A. Kessler has outlined a legal path for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the food industry, while testing President Trump’s willingness to do so.

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Agriculture Dept. to Crack Down on Chinese Ownership of American Farmland

The agriculture secretary announced a plan to limit Chinese and foreign purchases of farmland as part of its national security strategy.

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Trump’s Pick to Run the Forest Service Has a History With the Agency

Michael Boren, a tech company founder, has clashed with the agency for years over land he owns in Idaho.

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A Peach and Apple Farmer’s Uphill Quest to Feed Poor Families, and His Own

When the Trump administration slashed a successful food aid program, Austin Flamm set out to put politics aside. “Everybody needs a meal,’’ he said.

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U.S. Ranchers Can Sell Britons More Beef. Will They Buy It?

The countries’ trade agreement is just a first step, U.S. officials say. But British consumers are still skeptical of American food production.

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