Project 2025 — the strategically detailed playbook that the Republican Party has crafted in anticipation of a second Donald Trump presidency — includes all manner of categories that would be addressed during the White House transition, such as personnel, welfare, economics, and defense.
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Among the key issues that Project 2025 identifies in agriculture are:
- To defend American agriculture, particularly in the approach to the food supply chain and improving efficiencies. “One of the important lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic was how critical it is to remove barriers in the food supply chain — not to increase them,” the document says. […]
- To overhaul the farm subsidy program, including how subsidies are intertwined with agricultural policy and can influence planting decisions. “The overall goal should be to eliminate subsidy dependence,” Project 2025 states. […]
- Remove obstacles to agricultural biotechnology, particularly in how genetically engineered food is labeled. “The USDA should strongly counter scare tactics regarding agricultural biotechnology and adopt policies to remove unnecessary barriers to approvals and the adoption of biotechnology,” the mandate says.
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Among the key issues that Project 2025 identifies in environmental policy and that relate to farmers and ranchers are:
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- Reforms relating to pesticide approval and reviews, where more is done to vet the data used during reviews and not caving to low-quality or non-transparent data that may be publicly accessible. Too often, the document notes, is that review data doesn’t adhere to the same rigor that original agency testing data used.
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It’s safe that as the November election day gets closer, more and more commentary among the national media will be tailored toward the potential impacts of Project 2025.
