Dept. of Agriculture

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[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

🚨 With the recent detection of New World screwworm in a 3-week-old bovine in Zavala County, TX, USDA urges residents to contact your veterinarian right away if you see any suspicious wounds, maggots, or infestations in your animals or herd.

If you see signs of maggot infestations in live or very recently dead wild animals, especially in areas near the U.S./Mexico border, please call 866-4USDA-WS (866-487-3297) to report it to your local USDA Wildlife Services office.

For more information, visit https://t.co/LLaPC1kGs3.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

🚨Walmart is LOWERING prices on chicken, beef, and pork products for the summer.

More affordable groceries. More real food on the table.

Thank you, @POTUS, for delivering results for America's farmers, ranchers, and consumers.

And MORE ARE FOLLOWING!

[Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden @DepSecVaden]

Today, I sent an unsolicited @USDA reorganization update to Congressional colleagues, both appropriators and authorizers.

✅Seven different collective bargaining actions completed, four in progress.
✅These include voluntary agreements with @USDA_FNA and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center employees.
✅Fifteen lease and facilities actions.
✅Ten different notifications to Congress.

The Department will continue to improve service and reduce bureaucracy. Read more here ⬇️.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

🇺🇸 @POTUS has made affordability and restoring the American Dream a TOP priority!

The results speak for themselves. ⬇️

⛽ Fuel prices are down.
🥩 Beef is down.
🐟 Seafood is down.
🐖 Pork is down.
🐔 Chicken is down.
🥛 Dairy is down.
🍓 Fruit is down.

This week’s inflation report delivered the largest monthly decline since April 2020—proving the so-called experts wrong once again.

Lower taxes. Less government. More money back in Americans' pockets.

That's how we restore affordability. That's how we bring BACK the American Dream. 🇺🇸

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

USDA puts farmers first through programs like the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program and the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, providing more than $12 billion to farmers in response to temporary trade market disruptions and increased production costs.  

Enrollment is open for the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program through Aug. 7, 2026, and producers can submit their application at https://t.co/RBZwCm7kQo.

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

Wins for the MAHA movement! 💪

@SecRollins joined @SecKennedy alongside @TGHCares executive leadership and @gzchef to celebrate Tampa General Hospital's signing of the "Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge” — a nationwide initiative inviting hospitals to eliminate highly processed food and serve healthier, more nutritious meals aligned with the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

✅ Pledge: signed.
✅ Food: healthier.
✅ Patients: better off.

Is your hospital ready to step up? Join @TGHCares and Make Hospital Food Healthy Again today! ⬇️
https://t.co/7rD1Aphawz

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

If we're going to Make America Healthy Again, it starts with America's farmers and ranchers.

Real food is the answer to our nation's chronic disease crisis.

Today's visit to @TGHCares with @SecKennedy was a reminder that hospitals, schools, and communities all have a role to play in putting healthy, nutrient-dense American food back at the center of our lives.

What Tampa General is doing can serve as a model for hospitals across the country. And together, we can build a healthier future for every American. 🇺🇸

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

.@SecKennedy: “You can’t have good health in a country if you don’t have good food.”

@HHSGov is partnering with @USDA to bring healthier food to hospitals across America.

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

.@HHSGov and @USDA have come together and made it a mission to highlight the importance of eating real food.

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

.@SecRollins: “If we really are going to reverse this heartbreaking trend that has been happening in our country for so long in terms of chronic disease and just the health of our people, the way to do it is through our farmers, ranchers, and eating real food.”

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

Together, these efforts strengthen the connection between American agriculture and Making America Healthier!

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

Putting REAL, nutrient-dense American food back at the center of health starts with America's farmers and ranchers.

@SecRollins and @SecKennedy visited @TGHCares to highlight 2 Trump Administration initiatives advancing the Make America Healthy Again agenda 👇

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

🏫 USDA's State School Meals Pledge — inviting governors and school districts to voluntarily serve healthier school meals, including whole milk, whole foods at breakfast, and 100% whole grain products.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Real food should be on every hospital tray.

@SecKennedy and I sampled nutrient-dense meals at @TGHCares as Tampa General became the FIRST hospital to sign the Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge!

Patients deserve healthy food, and America’s farmers are ready to provide it.🇺🇸

[New World Screwworm Rapid Response @Screwworm_RR]

USDA innovation just leveled up our fight against New World screwworm.

NovoFly™ will bring more sterile males, faster releases, and stronger eradication. Curious? Check out the Q&A at https://t.co/4Jqnvn8woZ to learn how it works.

Read our NovoFly™ Questions & Answers at the link below! 👇
https://t.co/4KixRFvakL

[Dept. of Agriculture @USDA]

🇺🇸 @JohnRich speaking with @NFRW about his new role as Special Envoy for American Landowners where he'll be advocating for the property rights of farmers and ranchers, and ensuring the voices of everyday American landowners are heard loud and clear.

By orchestrating a defense through federal agencies, this new presidential role ensures everyday landowners don't have to face large entities alone. 🛡️👇

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Putting Farmers First means giving producers a government that works for them, NOT the other way around.

Yesterday I met with some of the best farmers from across America — including corn growers from Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, and New York — to discuss how @USDA is modernizing the way we serve America's farmers. 🌽

Earlier this year, we launched the One Farmer, One File initiative that revolutionizes the way farmers interact with USDA programs so farmers can spend less time in an office and more time in the field.

We've already made meaningful progress, but there's more work ahead, especially when it comes to data collection, analysis, and reporting.

The best ideas come from the producers who fill out our surveys and rely on timely and accurate data from USDA to make business decisions. Feedback from farmers, like those I met with yesterday, will help USDA develop a plan to modernize these processes and restore producer confidence in our data.

Stay tuned for more!

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Under President Trump’s leadership, we are ending SNAP fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars.

SNAP benefits should go to the Americans who need them most — not fraudsters exploiting the system.

Thanks to Republican governors who stepped up and partnered with us, we’ve uncovered hundreds of thousands of cases of fraud, including deceased individuals receiving benefits and duplicate recipients.

This is what REAL accountability looks like. We can’t fix what we can’t see, and we need every state to put politics aside and help us protect the SNAP program.

And if you are committing fraud, you will be caught and prosecuted. 💪

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Fertilizer isn't just an agriculture issue—it's a national security issue.

Input costs have decreased BIG since 2022:

⬇️ Potash: 54%
⬇️ Ammonia: 48%
⬇️ Urea: 58%

@POTUS is bringing fertilizer production back to America because our farmers should never depend on Russia, China, or any other foreign nation for the inputs that feed our country.

Food security is national security. 🇺🇸