A group of Trump advisers, Cabinet secretaries and MAHA farmers came to the Oval Office for a signing ceremony on an executive order they championed. A group of farmers walked into the Oval Office last week expecting to smile as the president signed an executive order supporting the popular farming practice called regenerative agriculture, a method cheered by the Make America Healthy Again movement as an alternative to pesticides. Duvall told the president he was concerned that the order would insinuate a negative impact from pesticide use and said he would not be able to advocate for Trump on behalf of farmers if he signed it, three of the farmers said. Rick Clark, a fifth-generation Indiana farmer who uses regenerative farming methods and was in the Oval Office meeting, said it was a heated policy debate with the people who would be most affected by the executive order, which he thought was geared at best informing the president.
by Martha Ryan
2026-07-01
