After ‘good conversations,’ Nebraska Farm Bureau says new MAHA report is better

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The Make America Healthy Again report released Tuesday by gained increased approval from Nebraska farmers.

After criticism of the initial report published in May, the MAHA Commission met with farm bureaus to learn more about farming practices.

“We had good conversations with the administration,” said Mark McHargue, president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau. “We sat down with them.”

A group of agriculture leaders took Calley Means, one of the report’s authors, to a few farms to show him modern-day practices in action.

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The commission is spearheaded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Its previous report indicated that herbicides and other protective products used in farming could make children sick.

McHargue said that’s not true, and after ongoing conversations with the writers of the report, he noticed two major improvements this time around.

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First, the commission recognized that those products are the result of years of testing.

“Those products have been approved by the EPA through a longstanding, rigorous process that takes very deliberative steps to approve those items,” McHargue said.

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The second change was a recognition of how far farming technology has come, such as with precision agriculture.

McHargue said farmers have technology that allows them so spray herbicide only on a weed, and not on all the crops around it.

He also described the precision used when adjusting fertilizer.

“We have the ability to adjust the fertilizer every couple of feet and put a different amount on depending on what the productivity of the soil is and how much that plant is going to use,” he said.

McHargue said the conversation between the MAHA Commission and farmers is ongoing and that they will work together to make Americans healthier.