Overview
- The president signed the executive order on Thursday directing USDA, HHS and EPA to make agricultural modernization a priority and to begin agency actions that reflect the Make America Healthy Again agenda.
- USDA is ordered to maximize funding for its Regenerative Agriculture Pilot Program, share results with stakeholders, and use existing authorities to build public‑private partnerships that help producers adopt soil‑building conservation practices.
- EPA is instructed to prioritize registration actions for substances that can replace older active ingredients and to review data and labeling for registered pre‑harvest desiccants while still completing required human health and ecological risk assessments.
- HHS, USDA and EPA must develop a research and evaluation framework on cumulative chemical exposures in the food supply and HHS will launch an NIH grand prize and ask ARPA‑H to fund work on alternatives to conventional crop‑protection tools.
- The order sets policy goals but does not change law or guarantee new spending because agencies must follow statutory review processes and wait for appropriations; the administration notes this builds on an earlier more than $1 billion investment to modernize farms and could spur private innovation and new market opportunities for producers.