On June 25, 2026, three major developments happened that, in concert, paint a clear picture of where our food system is heading:

  1. Trump signed the “Advancing Regenerative Agriculture” Executive Order which, though weak on details, promises to promote “regenerative” methods and focus on soil health. It explicitly promotes “precision agriculture technologies” and public-private partnerships to expand capacity.
  2. The USDA released a new “Regenerative Feedstock Rule”, declaring that farmers who use “regenerative” methods can qualify for lower carbon intensity scores on their products to improve access to biofuel markets.
  3. The US Supreme Court sided with Bayer/Monsanto, blocking thousands of lawsuits against RoundUp, but also—and much more significantly—setting the dangerous precedent that the EPA’s labelling requirements supersede state-level failure-to-warn claims.

Add in the February 18, 2026 EO, “Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-based Herbicide,” and a full, coherent architecture comes into view: protect the existing chemical-based model while layering on a new technocratic control system with a fresh coat of paint for marketing.

The Hijacking of Language

The Advancing Regenerative Agriculture EO invokes verbiage familiar to proponents of real regenerative farming. It feels good. It smells nice. It explicitly promotes “precision agriculture technologies” and public-private partnerships. Implementation details are lacking, but upon a cursory glance, one would come away believing it is well-intended, as it speaks to soil health, lower input costs, maintained yields, profitability, and “farm resilience.”

One would be wrong.

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