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GOVERNMENT PROVIDES $1 BILLION TO STUDY IMPACT OF CROP PROTECTION TOOLS
Mar. 12, 2026
National Agricultural Law Center reports:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in partnership with USDA and EPA, has announced over $1 billion to study the impact of "cumulative chemical exposures" on human health and reducing reliance on "chemical crop protection tools."
HHS is contributing $200 million towards this effort, $100 million of which will be spent on a "grand prize challenge" for researchers to "to identify creative solutions for evaluating the exposure, diagnosis, and treatments of cumulative chemical exposures on individual health." The other $100 million from HHS will be put towards developing new technologies to "reduce reliance on chemical crop protection tools in order to improve human health[.]"
USDA has committed $840 million, with $700 million spent towards funding regenerative agriculture projects through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program. The other $140 million will be used to identify and support "innovative solutions to pests and disease of plants or animals."
Finally, EPA is providing $30 million for its own "grand prize challenge" to identify "alternatives to pre-harvest desiccation use of pesticides." EPA notes that the purpose of this funding is to reduce pesticide usage while "providing innovating new tools for farmers[.]"
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