February 27, 2025 – CAWG joined over 200 other organizations in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, expressing enthusiasm for working with her and the Trump Administration. The letter also urged for the use of science-and risk-based decision making to ensure that policy is factually based and effective in protecting consumer health and safety.
March 7, 2025 – CAWG and 293 organizations sent a letter to the Make America Healthy Again coalition, emphasizing opportunities for collaboration to advance shared goals. However, the main focus of the letter was to address concerns regarding unfounded criticisms against the safety of the food and agricultural value chain.
March 24, 2025 – CAWG and 295 other organizations sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticide Programs regarding health claims on pesticide labels that contradict the EPA’s findings. The letter expressed concern that recent state actions requiring pesticide labels to include language inconsistent with EPA safety assessments could result in a patchwork of false, misleading, and potentially conflicting state labels. It also urged the EPA to grant the state attorney general’s petition and initiate rulemaking under 7 U.S.C. § 136v.
Additionally, CAWG also signed a letter to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) regarding the Section 301 investigation of China’s targeting of the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors for dominance. The letter highlights the critical role of ports and vessels to U.S. Agriculture and emphasized the need to be part of the conversation with USTR’s trade action plans. It also requested an exemption for U.S. agriculture from both the proposed fees on Chinese vessels and graduated sourcing requirements for U.S. built and flagged vessels until domestic ship production capacity can meet the needs necessary to keep U.S. agriculture competitive in the global market.
March 28, 2025 – CAWG joined other agricultural organizations in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding the Food for Peace program. The letter asks for the program to be managed by the USDA, instead of USAID. It states that USDA is uniquely equipted to serve the farmers that grow the food that feeds our country and the world, including through the Food for Peace program.
April 7, 2025 – CAWG and over 90 other agricultural organizations sent a letter to members of both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees asking for Fiscal Year 2026 funding for the Food for Peace and the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education programs. The letter highlighted how these programs help feed millions of vulnerable people around the world, while also benefiting U.S. economic and national security interests.