Nebraska will be the first state in the U.S. to bar SNAP recipients from using the money to buy pop or energy drinks, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture said Monday.

Brooke Rollins' trip through Nebraska included stops at a bio-industrial facility in Blair and a hog farm in Fremont, before finishing at the Ohnoutka family farm near Valparaiso.

Nebraska is the first state in the country to sign onto the U.S. secretary of agriculture's new pilot program for SNAP restrictions.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says a multi-agency effort is underway to help improve the nation’s farm labor crisis. “If our farmers can’t have the workforce they need, which many cannot, and don’t have access to.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration is having internal discussions about what to do regarding farmworkers who are in the country illegally.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will travel to Nebraska on Monday for events with Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, and Rep. Adrian Smith, who is also a Republican. Rollins, Pillen and Smith will tour Wholestone Farms,

U.S. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE BROOKE ROLLINS WILL BE IN NEBRASKA TODAY (MONDAY) WITH GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN AND REPRESENTATIVE ADRIAN SMITH. SECRETARY ROLLINS, GOVERNOR PILLEN, AND REPRESENTATIVE SMITH WILL TOUR THE WHOLESTONE FARMS HOG PROCESSING FACILITY IN FREMONT,

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday that the department didn’t plan to offer another round of buyouts and acknowledged that the release of a reorganization plan had been delayed by litigation.