[Video] Secretary Rollins Signs Grazing MOU With Interior Secretary Burgum as USDA Proposes a Federal Rule to Expand Ranchers' Access to Grazing Allotments
Washington — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) held a press conference on its grazing initiatives at its headquarters in Washington on the morning of November 10, where Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins appeared alongside Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to sign a grazing memorandum of understanding. USDA's official YouTube channel began carrying the event live at 9:04 a.m. Eastern Time, and the video of the event is embedded on this page.
USDA titled the stream "Grazing MOU signing with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum." Its entire description is one sentence: USDA proposes a federal rule to expand access to grazing allotments for American ranchers. The backdrop behind the podium reads "RANCHERS FIRST."
The press conference was the first of two events USDA held at the Whitten Building that day, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Eastern. In June, USDA issued a grazing directive instructing the Forest Service to open vacant and closed allotments to ranchers, to ensure no net loss of grazing capacity, and setting a goal of restoring at least 500,000 head months of grazing on national forest lands by 2028. Rollins has previously said about 278,000 head months had been restored in 2026, processing had begun on applications for 165 vacant allotments, and $8 million in grazing program funding was in place. The U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low, and federal grazing policy is a central part of USDA's ranchers-first agenda.
On the Interior side, Burgum signed a secretarial order on October 27 directing Interior bureaus to identify additional grazing lands within 30 days, address the grazing permit backlog, and renew permits for their full 10-year terms. USDA and the Interior Department run the two major federal grazing systems: national forest lands managed by the Forest Service and public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The live stream has ended, running 58 minutes 25 seconds in full. A full report on the signing and the press conference's key points will follow once USDA issues its formal release.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Photo: 图：美国农业部总部 Jamie L. Whitten 联邦大楼。照片：Preston Keres／美国农业部摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Photo: Preston Keres / USDA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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