Urge USDA to swiftly implement GAO recommendations by conducting a nationwide climate-related disease and pest risk assessment and developing a national strategy to protect farms and forests.

The GAO report lays out a practical, forward-looking roadmap that USDA should adopt without delay. The first step is for USDA, in consultation with stakeholders across the agricultural and land-management communities, to conduct a nationwide risk assessment to identify and assess the relative risks of climate‑related diseases and pests. Such an assessment would provide the analytical foundation for a national strategy to confront these threats before they escalate further.

Pingree urged USDA to adopt GAO's recommendations without delay, beginning with a nationwide risk assessment and using it as the foundation for a national strategy on climate-related diseases and pests.

Responding to Pingree Request, GAO Finds USDA Has Done Too Little to Protect Farms and Forests from Climate-Driven Diseases and Pests | U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree
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I am writing to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to swiftly implement the recommendations in the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent report, Agricultural Diseases and Pests: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Pingree directly urged USDA to implement the GAO recommendations named in the commitment.

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pingree_letter_to_usda_re_gao_report.pdf
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a longtime organic farmer and member of the House Agriculture Committee, is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to swiftly implement recommendations from a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that examines the growing climate-related risks that diseases and pests pose to American farms and forests.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Pingree’s office publicly announced the USDA implementation push during the lookback window.

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Responding to Pingree Request, GAO Finds USDA Has Done Too Little to Protect Farms and Forests from Climate-Driven Diseases and Pests | U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree
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GAO is recommending that USDA (1) conduct a nationwide assessment of the climate-related risks of agricultural and forest diseases and pests and (2) develop a strategy to manage identified risks. USDA did not provide a written response that either agreed or disagreed with the recommendations.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GAO issued the exact recommendations Pingree later urged USDA to adopt, but USDA had not agreed or disagreed in writing.

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Agricultural Diseases And Pests: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests | U.S. GAO
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The Secretary of Agriculture should, in consultation with stakeholders across the agricultural and land management communities, leverage and build upon related departmental actions to conduct a nationwide risk assessment of the climate-related risks of agricultural and forest diseases and pests. (Recommendation 1) | Open

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): GAO’s recommendation status shows the nationwide risk assessment remained open, so USDA implementation was not yet complete.

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Agricultural Diseases And Pests: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests | U.S. GAO
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The Secretary of Agriculture should, in consultation with stakeholders across the agricultural and land management communities, develop a strategy to manage any identified climate-related risks of agricultural and forest diseases and pests identified in the nationwide risk assessment. (Recommendation 2) | Open

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): GAO’s recommendation status shows the national strategy remained open, so USDA implementation was not yet complete.

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Agricultural Diseases And Pests: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests | U.S. GAO
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You asked us to consider what actions USDA could take to enhance the climate resilience of farms and forests to plant diseases and pests.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The GAO report was prepared for Pingree in her House role, documenting oversight effort before the USDA letter.

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GAO-26-106756, AGRICULTURAL DISEASES AND PESTS: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests
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