Press Release Amicus Brief Highlights "Unintended Consequents" If the Court Rules in Favor of Bayer/Monsanto and the Pesticide Industry HHRA warned the Supreme Court that “the effectiveness of FIFRA [federal pesticide law] rises and falls on the fluidity and coherence…
By: Tom Green, HHRA Board Chair and Chuck Benbrook, former HHRA ED Updated December 13, 2025 Farmers growing major U.S. crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton and peanuts are facing record loses due to steeply depressed crop prices over…
By: Tom Green, HHRA Board Chair and Chuck Benbrook, former HHRA ED Note to Readers and Contributors The document below discusses policy reforms that could be incorporated in future farm legislation. We are soliciting reactions and better ideas to improve…
By: Tom Green, HHRA Board Chair and Kathleen Merrigan, Chair, Policy Advisory Committee Excessive intakes of unhealthy processed foods are driving deeply worrisome trends in public health that every American family is aware of, and likely impacted by. Problems arising in the…
Defining and Delineating Ultra-Processed Foods These comments are submitted on behalf of the Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA), a non-profit organization conducting research on the impacts of farming systems on the environment and public health (hh-ra.org), and the Swette Center…
By Russell King, HHRA Executive Director I'm pleased to announce that the HHRA has earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency for 2023 --an achievement earned by fewer than one percent of US-based nonprofits. The Candid Platinum Seal is the…
By: David R. Montgomery, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Seattle By: Chuck Benbrook, Executive Director, HHRA An international team of scientists published a January 6, 2023 Policy Forum piece in Science entitled "Soil biodiversity needs policy without borders". It…
An update on HHRA research on herbicide use in Iowa and changes in herbicide exposure levels was presented March 29, 2023 at the annual meeting of the Iowa Public Health Association. The meeting was held on the campus of Iowa…
By: Chuck Benbrook, HHRA ED By: Mark Lipson, HHRA Director of Policy and Regulatory Engagement We welcomed the invitation from California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation for members of the public to offer comments and guidance as the State begins to…
In a January 26, 2023 press release, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released a provocative report entitled “Sustainable Pest Management: A Roadmap for California.” The Roadmap report sets “ambitious goals and actions to accelerate California’s systemwide transition to…