Analysis: Trump-inspired 2025 Blueprint for US Agriculture — Blueprint recommends streamlining non-science-based biotech and pesticide regulations

Project 2025 — the detailed policy playbook the Republican Party has developed in anticipation of a second Donald Trump presidency — includes all sorts of categories that would be addressed during the White House transition, such as personnel, welfare, the economy and defense.

Among the main challenges identified by Project 2025 in the agricultural sector are:

• To defend American agriculture, particularly in the approach to the food supply chain and improving efficiency. “One of the important lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic has been how critical it is to withdraw “We need to remove barriers in the food supply chain, not increase them,” the document says. (…)
• To revise the agricultural subsidy program, including how subsidies are closely linked to agricultural policy and can influence planting decisions. “The overall objective should be to eliminate dependence on subsidies,” says Project 2025. (…)
• Removing barriers to agricultural biotechnology, Particularly in how genetically modified foods are labeled. “USDA should firmly counter fear tactics regarding agricultural biotechnology and adopt policies to remove unnecessary barriers to biotechnology approvals and adoption,” the mandate states.

Among the main issues identified by Project 2025 in terms of environmental policy and which concern farmers and breeders are:

• Reforms to the approval and review of pesticides, More needs to be done to verify the data used in reviews and not rely on poor quality or non-transparent data that may be publicly available. Too often, the paper notes, review data is not as rigorous as the agency’s original test data.

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Certainly, as Election Day in November approaches, more and more commentary in the national media will focus on the potential impacts of Project 2025.

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