Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Thursday she’s open to expanding on an experiment linking farm conservation to the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
The Trump administration’s budget request — a nearly 28 percent drop from this year — suggests she may face internal headwinds.
Rollins’s “regenerative” agriculture pilot program, which pays farmers to take on certain soil conservation practices, came up at a House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Thursday, as the secretary cast the effort as one of the early successes of the new administration.
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“It’s a slow recalibration” of agriculture, Rollins said, toward organic and regenerative practices that promote healthier soil and less reliance on farm chemicals.
