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Secretary of Agriculture

Brooke Rollins

Republican · Texas

Former president of the American Conservative Union Foundation and CEO of the America First Policy Institute. Served in Trump's first-term White House on the Domestic Policy Council. Texas A&M graduate with background in agricultural policy.

Record

Supports American farmers through market-oriented policies and trade expansion. Prioritizes agricultural exports and rural economic development. Focuses on food supply chain security and reducing regulations on family farms.

Legislative Record

Executive orders & directives

  • 2026-15525 — Clingstone Peach Diversion Program; Amendment of Program Regulations (Department rule, Jul 31, 2026)
    This interim final rule amends the regulatory requirements for the Clingstone Peach Diversion Program (Program). The Program is voluntary, consists of payments for peach tree removal, and is implemented under clause (3) of section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act Amendment of 1935, as amended…
  • 2026-15284 — Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation (Department rule, Jul 29, 2026)
    The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is amending its regulations to ensure that wetland determinations issued after November 28, 1990, have been and will be certified as sufficient to serve as the basis for determining ineligibility for certain USDA program benefits under the Wetland…
  • 2026-13878 — Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar Provisions (Department rule, Jul 9, 2026)
    This rule revises the regulations of the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), the Tree Assistance Program (TAP), the Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) and Loan Deficiency…
  • 2026-13841 — Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan Program (Department rule, Jul 9, 2026)
    The Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Program (also referred to as the Section 9003 program) provides loan guarantees up to $250 million to assist in the development, construction, and retrofitting of new and emerging technologies. These technologies are: advanced…
  • 2026-13571 — Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP) (Department rule, Jul 6, 2026)
    The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) provides funding for the Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP) for fiscal years 2025 through 2031, and, as a result, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this rule to establish OCCSP for 2025 and future program years. The rule specifies…
  • 2026-13372 — National Environmental Policy Act (Department rule, Jul 2, 2026)
    This document corrects a technical error in the final rule that appeared in the April 3, 2026, Federal Register, titled "National Environmental Policy Act."
  • 2026-13092 — Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel Feedstocks (Department rule, Jun 29, 2026)
    This final rule revises technical guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the carbon intensity of agricultural commodity crops used in the production of biofuels relative to an estimated national average that were established by a prior January 2025 interim rule. Specifically, the…
  • 2026-12700 — Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages; Delay of Vitamin D in Yogurt Implementation Date and Technical Corrections (Department rule, Jun 24, 2026)
    On April 18, 2024, the Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) published a final rule that revised the WIC food package regulations. The final rule contained incorrect table entries. This rule corrects those tables. In addition to the corrections, this rule extends the implementation date for WIC…

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