Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience

This Executive Order, signed on June 25, 2026, directs a federal overhaul of the American food supply to support the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) initiative.Key directives include:Regenerative & Precision Agriculture: Significantly increases investment and public-private partnerships to help farmers adopt soil-healthy, cost-reducing, and innovative farming practices.Chemical Safety & Research: Orders the EPA to prioritize safer pesticide alternatives and conduct a safety review of "pre-harvest desiccation" (spraying crops to dry them before harvest).Cumulative Exposure Study: Mandates new research into the "cocktail effect" of combined chemical exposures in the food supply and their impact on human health.Innovation Incentives: Establishes an NIH "grand prize" and ARPA-H research focus to find technologies that reduce reliance on conventional chemicals and improve the diagnosis and treatment of chemical exposure.The order aims to modernize farming to ensure the U.S. food supply is the healthiest and most affordable in the world while addressing the national crisis of childhood chronic disease.