The long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report, released this week, covered several topics, including autism, vaccines, fluoride use, and ultraprocessed food consumption. Ag groups were mostly in agreement with the policy recommendations addressing chronic childhood disease.

National Corn Growers Association President Kennth Hartman Jr. said, “The policy recommendations related to crop production, released today by the MAHA Commission, appear to be a reasonable and science-based approach for achieving its objectives. We are encouraged that when the commission engaged with agricultural stakeholders and followed the science, it reaffirmed what we already know: EPA is the appropriate agency for regulating crop inputs.”

American Soybean Association (ASA) President Caleb Ragland said, “Soybean farmers are thankful the MAHA Commission recognized EPA’s approval process as the global gold standard.” However, ASA remains concerned about misinformed rhetoric from some Commission members around edible soybean oil.

National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Gregg Doud said, “The MAHA Commission’s Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy recognizes what the latest science indicates and what we’ve long been saying: that getting whole milk back into schools and boosting dairy in diets helps meet America’s nutritional needs. It is critical to improve the health of our nation’s children.”

National Cattleman’s Beef Association Senior Vice President of Government Affairs said, “This report confirms the science-based recommendation that making America healthy again has to start with safe, nutritious, fresh, whole-ingredient and American beef, hits the target on all of the above. Millions of American families build a healthy plate around our product every week.”

Read more ag industry responses to the latest MAHA report here.