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Kentucky Farmer Who Heads National Ag Group Blasts MAHA Report

By John McGary

A Kentucky farmer who’s president of the American Soybean Association is asking the Trump Administration to reconsider its “Make America Healthy Again” report. The MAHA study has been criticized by several farming groups for blaming approved pesticides for several diseases and reproductive problems. Caleb Ragland farms in Larue and Hart counties.

“Coming from this commission, it’s got the stamp of the federal government on it, and it paints farmers in a very negative light, and it paints the safety of the food that America’s farmers are producing as dangerous and unsafe.”

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