Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Avian Metapneumovirus disease The Foreign Animal Disease Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification (HPAI) Act (H.R. 1376/S.574) Farm Bill Reconciliation Package Agriculture Provisions
-Policy changes associated with the Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products FSIS-2023-0028. -USDA-FSIS five prong food safety strategy to strengthen public health. -Policy changes associated with Food Labeling: Front-of-Package Nutrition Information; Docket No. FDA-2024-N-2910 -Request for Information (RFI) to define ultra-processed foods. -Make American Healthy Again Report
FY26 Agriculture Appropriations - Establishment of a HPAI Strategic Initiative, Support for the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, and USDA activities on Salmonella policy development.
Reconciliation- Tax Provisions -Estate Tax Relief -Ensuring Permanency for 199A Qualified Business Income Deduction -Making the Lower Individual Tax Rates and Expanded Tax Brackets Permanent -Increasing Section 179 Expensing -Restoring 100% Bonus Depreciation -Section 45Q tax credit
Agriculture Labor
Fortifying Refrigeration Infrastructure and Developing Global Exports (FRIDGE) Act. Support of the nomination of a Chief Agricultural Negotiator within USTR. USMCA Review
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding its proposed Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS)