Supporting America’s Ranchers

The order targets key issues hurting U.S. ranchers—low cattle numbers, predator threats, and labeling confusion—while seeking to lower beef prices and bolster food security.

What the order does ​

• Directs agencies to assess and recommend actions to improve ranchers’ finances and market access.
• Starts review to potentially remove or lower protections for gray and Mexican wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
• Calls for state engagement to ease wolf-related restrictions and lethal control to protect livestock.
• Moves to streamline and standardize claims for livestock losses from wolf predation.
• Evaluates mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef and prepares to implement or recommend related regulations.
• Orders agencies to maximize actions that lower food prices for consumers.

Who it affects ​

• Ranchers and beef producers.
• Federal and state wildlife, agriculture, trade, and food agencies.
• Consumers of beef products.
• Advocates and opponents of wolf protections.

Context ​

Order responds to a decades-long decline in cattle numbers and continued policy debates about rancher viability, predator management, and food labeling.