Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support and multi‑year funding to farmers, rural infrastructure, conservation, nutrition, and research—improving access to credit, broadband, and technical assistance—while creating sizable new federal spending, added administrative complexity, and tradeoffs that could favor larger operators and reduce some environmental and state regulatory safeguards.
United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill aims to modernize and stabilize federal grain inspection, weighing, and funding mechanisms—improving accuracy, transparency, and flexibility—while risking higher costs and administrative burdens for farmers, small handlers, and USDA and introducing potential inconsistencies in oversight.
DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act
The bill accelerates cross‑agency RD&D and workforce/infrastructure gains for energy and agriculture, but does so at the cost of new federal spending and risks to data privacy, equitable grant access, and potential local land‑use conflicts.
Fix Our Forests Act
The bill accelerates and coordinates large-scale fuels reduction, watershed restoration, tribal inclusion, and community assistance to reduce wildfire risk and create economic opportunities — but it does so by streamlining and expanding federal authorities in ways that reduce environmental review, local control, and some legal protections while raising administrative costs and implementation risks.
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the United States Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
The resolution strengthens IPIF‑led research and local restoration efforts that boost environmental resilience, scientific capacity, and some local jobs, at the cost of likely increased federal spending and added implementation burdens for local and Indigenous authorities.
Designating October 16, 2025, and October 16, 2026, as "World Food Day".
The resolution spotlights global hunger and promotes research, conservation, and public engagement that could increase aid and agricultural resilience, but it may raise expectations and push spending or market-based approaches without authorizing new funding or systemic reforms.
Recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture in the United States by designating June 15 through June 22, 2025, as "National Pollinator Week".
The resolution seeks to restore native pollinators to protect agriculture, food security, and ecosystems, but doing so may require federal resources and create costs, restrictions, and regulatory uncertainty for farmers and landowners.
Commending Federal, State, and local law enforcement for their efforts in protecting Americans by combating drug trafficking and agroterrorism and for their recent actions in Kansas and across the country.
The resolution highlights and supports law-enforcement efforts that can reduce lethal drug supply and protect agriculture, but the trade-off is greater emphasis on enforcement—potentially higher taxpayer costs and risks to civil liberties and investments in treatment/prevention.
Securing American Agriculture Act
The bill aims to make agricultural supply chains more resilient and spur rural investment by collecting private data and recommending onshoring policies, but it risks higher costs for taxpayers and some farmers and may be undermined if voluntary data collection is incomplete.
Avian Flu Vaccination Strategy Act
The bill trades faster, coordinated and trade-aligned vaccination planning that can reduce disease spread and protect markets against the risk that farmers and taxpayers will face costs, delayed on-the-ground protection if funding or implementation lags, and potential constraints on rapid domestic emergency actions.
Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025
The bill directs sustained federal support, coordination, and research to protect native ʻōhiʻa forests and reduce economic and cultural harm from Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, but does so at recurring taxpayer cost and with risks that lack of guaranteed appropriations, administrative burdens, and narrow prioritization could limit effectiveness.
Reduce Food Loss and Waste Act of 2025
The bill aims to boost food donations, improve redistribution, and reduce waste through voluntary certification, interagency coordination, and modest federal funding—benefiting food banks, low‑income households, and local waste outcomes—while imposing new certification burdens, potentially favoring larger firms, and risking limited national impact without mandatory measures.
Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act
The bill seeks to create federally supported insurance for mushroom producers to reduce financial risk and spur investment, but benefits may be delayed, could raise administrative costs or premiums, and risk leaving small or niche growers insufficiently represented.
Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025
The bill strengthens local and national weather observations and forecasting—improving safety and resilience—by funding and leveraging non‑Federal networks, but it shifts costs and operational burdens onto taxpayers, NOAA/NWS, and local applicants and may create access and sustainment barriers for smaller partners.
Wildfire Resilience Through Grazing Research Act
The bill directs federal research and outreach toward using grazing to reduce wildfire risk—potentially lowering costs and protecting communities and watersheds—but it increases federal spending and risks ecosystem harm, incentive distortions, and concentrated research funding if safeguards and inclusive eligibility are not implemented.
Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act
The bill increases dairy-sector transparency and provides useful data for businesses, researchers, and regulators, but it imposes reporting and administrative costs and carries some risk of exposing sensitive business information.
SAP Act
The bill increases maple industry input and transparency in federal research grant decisions—potentially making research more relevant to producers—but raises risks of capture by established interests, timing delays, and uncertainty from unspecified textual changes.
Forest Data Modernization Act of 2025
The bill improves national forest data quality and carbon accounting and expands public access to forest information, but does so at increased program and user cost, with added privacy risks and potential strain on agency capacity.
AG2PI Act of 2026
The bill aims to better organize and potentially fund agricultural genomics research—offering farmers and researchers long-term benefits—while risking implementation uncertainty and possible funding or scope reductions that could delay or diminish those benefits.
Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025
The bill promotes clearer definitions, coordinated standards, interoperability, and cybersecurity for precision agriculture—potentially cutting costs and improving resilience for farmers and rural communities—but it grants broad agency discretion and relies on voluntary, industry-led standards that may favor larger firms, raise costs, restrict vendor choice, and leave privacy and adoption gaps without stronger safeguards.
Opening Programs to Organic Farms Act
The bill aims to reduce barriers and improve USDA support for organic and transitioning producers through reporting, data transparency, and staff training assessments, at the cost of added reporting burdens, potential compliance costs for small farms, and some short-term demands on USDA resources.
Food Assurance and Security Act
The bill improves identification, monitoring, and research on household food insecurity to better target nutrition programs, but it creates privacy and respondent-burden risks and authorizes unspecified taxpayer costs.
U.S. Swine Health Improvement Plan Act of 2026
The bill aims to reduce the risk and economic damage of foreign animal disease and bolster market confidence with a voluntary, federally supported swine biosecurity certification, but it may impose costs and competitive pressure on smaller producers, add administrative burdens, and requires taxpayer funding and a rapid rulemaking timeline.
United States-Israel Agriculture Cooperation Improvement and Expansion Act
The bill provides targeted funding and accelerator support to speed mid-stage U.S.–Israel agricultural innovation and commercialization, trading off new federal spending and potential diversion from basic research with uncertain realized returns.
Precision Agriculture Cybersecurity Act
The bill increases clarity, oversight, and transparency to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience in precision agriculture—helping farmers and rural communities access support and reduce hack risk—while creating compliance costs, potential market restrictions for ag‑tech exporters, disclosure risks, and modest agency resource burdens.
Support nutrition, farmers, the seafood industry, agricultural research, wood energy and innovation, and indigenous self-determination, and for other purposes.
The bill directs federal resources to strengthen local food access, rural processing, coastal and tribal food systems, and related research/energy projects—boosting local economies and Indigenous self‑governance—while increasing federal spending, administrative complexity, and environmental/implementation risks that could divert funds or create transition challenges.
White Oak Resiliency Act of 2025
The bill mobilizes federal support, partnerships, and research to accelerate white oak restoration and related economic opportunities—benefiting rural landowners and communities—but does so at a risk of added taxpayer cost, diverted resources from other priorities, uneven access for non‑land‑grant actors, and reduced transparency.
Community College Agriculture Advancement Act of 2026
The bill provides targeted federal funding to expand community-college agricultural workforce training and employer-aligned programs, improving job-relevant skills and regional coordination, but the modest funding, exclusion of facility investments, and competitive structure may favor better-resourced institutions and leave rural colleges and broader academic programs less supported.
Natural Climate Solutions Research and Extension Act of 2026
The bill directs federal grants and research support to scale nature-based, carbon-storing practices on agricultural lands—benefiting farmers, rural communities, researchers, and Indigenous stewardship—while increasing federal spending and risking uneven access for small producers and added administrative complexity.
Advancing Automation Research and Development in Agriculture Act
The bill directs sustained federal funding to accelerate farm mechanization, training, and rural tech deployment—boosting productivity and safety for many farms while posing taxpayer costs and risks of worker displacement and concentrated federal grant awards.