MAHA Issues and 2001 Roadless Rule Rescinded
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Concern about the Make America Healthy Again report led 250-plus agriculture groups to ask the Trump administration to “correct” the direction of MAHA.
In a June 13 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and EPA
Administrator Lee Zeldin, the groups criticized the MAHA Commission’s “lack of transparency,” adding it didn’t allow any public engagement.
A follow-up MAHA report is due August 12.
**Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins is rescinding the 2001
Roadless Rule, which removes prohibitions on road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest on nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System.
This could allow better fire prevention and responsible timber production.
Rollins says this rule is overly restrictive and poses real harm to millions of acres of U.S. national forests.
30% of National Forest System lands are impacted by the rule.
**Milk production in the 24 major milk-producing states totaled 19.1 billion pounds, up 1.7% from May 2024.
April’s revised production, at 18.6 billion pounds, was also up 1.7% from last year, an increase of 0.1% from last month’s preliminary estimate.
Production per cow averaged 2,125 pounds for the month, seven pounds above May of 24.
The number of milk cows on farms was nine million head, 118,000 more than last year and 6,000 more than April.
