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'Big Beautiful Bill' brings ag changes

Daniel Munch, Samantha Ayoub and Faith Parum American Farm Bureau Federation
Jul 23, 2025
Jul 23, 2025

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Daniel Munch, Samantha Ayoub and Faith Parum American Farm Bureau Federation

After months of negotiation and debate, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) (H.R.1)” was signed into law July 4 by President Donald Trump. The resulting sweeping legislative package preserves Farm Bureau-supported provisions, strengthens the farm safety net, and offers longer-term certainty for farmers and ranchers navigating increasing input costs, volatile markets and weather uncertainty. This Market Intel consolidates the agricultural-related provisions of the final bill into a single comprehensive reference for how the final package supports America’s farmers and ranchers.

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Daniel Munch and Samantha Ayoub are associate economists, and Faith Parum is an economist, with the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Market Intel. Visit www.fb.org/market-intel for more information.