Agriculture Consult Needed in MAHA Report

The Make America Healthy Again report was tasked by the Trump administration for identifying childhood chronic disease causes many ag organizations are concerned that farming applications such as glyphosate could be subject to testing and regulations outside of the Environmental Protection Agency under the report, and they feel the EPA needs to retain sole authority over ag chemical regulation due to its rigorous testing and labeling standards. National Corn Growers Association President, Kenneth Hartman, Jr.

“We've had glyphosate and Atrazine studied many, many years. They're reviewed every 15 years. We feel like they're good products, and we definitely think that EPA should be the one that's that's taking care of the regulation of that.”

He says collaboration is key as sustainability becomes a growing focus for corn producers.

“But the same time, I mean, we want to reach out to to the administration and to the MAHA folks, and we want to communicate and talk to them, and we're hoping that we can have some meetings and work together on some of these issues to make sure that we keep our pesticide tools that we use because, you know, we need these tools because we've gotten more sustainable. We went down more of a conservation area with no till and with cover crops. But we need some of these products in order to stay in that process, versus going back to the, you know, 30-40, years ago where we were doing more tillage.”

Kenneth Hartman, Jr, president of the National Corn Growers Association,