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Latest Fact-Checks In Agriculture

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Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson
stated on June 5, 2026 in Fox News “The Ingraham Angle”:
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Graham Planter’s “oyster business (is) totally fake.”
False
By Ben Brasch • June 16, 2026
Blake Gendebien
Blake Gendebien
stated on January 30, 2026 in an X post:
Milk prices “currently are no higher than they were in 1980’s.”
Mostly True
By Mary McNaughton, Emma Gavazzi • March 31, 2026
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on November 24, 2025 in a newsletter:
“This Thanksgiving, turkey prices are at their lowest point since 2000.”
False
By Paul Specht • November 26, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 6, 2025 in remarks at a dinner:
Walmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 14, 2025
Francesca Hong
Francesca Hong
stated on June 12, 2025 in X, formerly Twitter:
“Nearly 25 cents of every $1 spent via SNAP goes to farmers and ranchers.”
True
By Madeline Heim • July 30, 2025
U.S. Trade Representative
U.S. Trade Representative
stated on July 20, 2025 in a social media post:
“America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under President Trump's leadership, but that surplus turned into a trade deficit of $40.6 million under President Biden's watch.”
Mostly True
By Gabrielle Lazor • July 24, 2025
Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins
stated on April 6, 2025 in an interview:
“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 9, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 25, 2025 in social media posts:
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard received $14 million in U.S. Agency for International Development funds for “experimental farming.”
False
By Claire Cranford • March 7, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 3, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“JAG arrests … USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong.”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 in White House press briefing:
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
Half-True
By Jeff Cercone • January 30, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2024 in a speech to the National Rifle Association:
Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre
stated on November 20, 2023 in a White House press briefing:
“Because wages are rising, this Thanksgiving dinner is the fourth-cheapest ever as a percentage of average earnings.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 1, 2023 in a speech in Northfield, Minn.:
"Over the past four decades, we’ve lost over 400,000 farms in America (and) over 140 million acres of farmland. And that’s an area roughly equal to the size of Minnesota, North and South Dakota combined.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Renee Romo • November 7, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 16, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:
“Bill Gates financió la investigación sobre garrapatas de ganado modificadas genéticamente" y ahora 450,000 estadounidenses "tienen alergias a la carne por el síndrome alfa-gal, causado por picaduras de garrapatas”.
False
By Maria Briceño, Jeff Cercone • September 21, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The price of "bacon is up five times" under President Joe Biden.
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:
"The federal government has just declared a major food shortage emergency" in six states.
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 16, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on July 27, 2023 in an Instagram reel:
“13 nations agree to abolish farming in order to save the planet.”
False
By Sara Swann • August 3, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on June 5, 2023 in a podcast:
Atrazine in the water supply is contributing to "sexual dysphoria" in kids.
False
By Grace Abels, Jill Terreri Ramos, Luiz Romero • June 28, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 4, 2023 in an Instagram post:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires anyone with a garden to “register that with the government.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 22, 2023
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