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Female Farming Dynasties Sought | Meat Packers Probe Underway | Tariffs on Fertilizer & Other Ag Products Dropped

Compiled News from Industry Sources (November 17, 2025)


Illinois Agri-Women (IAW) celebrates matriarchal lineage on the farm with a new project, Generations of Women in Agriculture Across America (GoAg3). The group is conducting a nationwide search for female farm-family dynasties that include at least three living generations of women involved in or retired from production agriculture or agribusiness. Applications may be submitted at illinoisagriwomen.org/goag3 through Jan. 31.


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President Donald Trump on Friday accused meatpacking companies of driving up U.S. beef prices, which have hit records, through manipulation and collusion, and ordered the Justice Department to investigate. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an X post the probe was under way and being run by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater. Slater leads the Justice Department's antitrust division, which investigates price-fixing and other practices that stifle competition.


President Trump signed an Executive Order Friday afternoon that modifies the scope of the reciprocal tariffs he first announced on April 2, 2025. The Executive Order now exempts several agricultural products from tariffs, including fruit, coffee and fertilizer.

In a fact sheet released Nov. 14, 2025, the administration says President Trump has determined that “certain qualifying agricultural products will no longer be subject to those tariffs, such as certain food not grown in the United States.”



 
 

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