Trump Sets $700 Million to Improve Soil, Water on Farms

The Trump administration is launching a $700 million pilot program to help farmers more easily adopt “regenerative” practices that improve the health of soil and water.

The program — part of President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again push — aims to cut red tape for growers seeking to change their operations in ways that limit losses from wind or runoff, according to a joint release from US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, the administration’s chief of Medicare and Medicaid.

“In order to continue to ...