The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry released legislative text for the budget reconciliation package that the committee says will “rein in runaway spending” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and promote an invest in “rural America and America’s farm families.”

The Farmer to Farmer Act would authorize the NRCS to enter into cooperative agreements with community-based organizations in each state that are able to identify and build on established and burgeoning peer-to-peer networks and create new ones.

The Department of Health and Human Services touted the 68-page report generated by a presidential commission as “exposing a range of contributing factors” in childhood chronic disease, including poor diet, accumulation of “environmental toxins,” inadequate physical activity, chronic stress and overmedicalization.”

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled several initiatives she says are designed to “Make Agriculture Great Again” by increasing access to credit, succession planning and land acquisition for small family farms.

USDA Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the agreement will, “lower tariffs, remove trade barriers, increase market access and strengthen cooperation on economic security.”

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins sent a letter to her counterpart in Mexico demanding Mexico eliminate restrictions on USDA aircraft and waive customs duties on eradication equipment that are critically impairing the U.S. response to spread of the New World Screwworm.

The USDA announced $340 million in disaster assistance will go out to help farmers, ranchers and rural communities across the country devastated by natural disasters.