President Donald Trump issued an executive order on June 25 directing federal agencies to expand support for regenerative agriculture and related farm practices.
The order builds on Executive Order 14212, which created the Make America Healthy Again Commission in February 2025. It states that the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, have already committed more than $1 billion toward farm modernization and food supply security.
The new directive sets policy to advance precision agriculture technologies, increase federal spending on regenerative practices, research, and education, and encourage private innovation through reduced regulation and public-private partnerships.
Regenerative agriculture is a holistic farming approach that restores soil health, enhances biodiversity, and strengthens ecosystem functions while supporting long-term agricultural productivity.
The EPA administrator is instructed to speed registration of alternatives to older pesticide ingredients while reviewing pre-harvest desiccation uses for safety and labeling compliance. The Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services and the EPA Administrator must develop a framework for assessing cumulative chemical exposures in the food supply using new scientific methods.
The Health and Human Services secretary, working with the Agriculture and EPA offices, will launch a National Institutes of Health prize challenge on cumulative chemical exposure and will direct funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health toward technologies that reduce reliance on conventional crop protection tools.
The Agriculture secretary is told to maximize spending on the existing Regenerative Pilot Program, share its results widely, and form public-private partnerships to help more producers adopt the practices.
The order contains standard provisions preserving existing legal authorities and limiting its effect to available appropriations, as reported by the White House.
