Your farmer's pesticide use is about to become public record.
H.R. 10629 — Pesticide Data Transparency Act · Filed by Nancy Mace (R-SC) · Introduced Sep 28, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill removes a federal restriction that prevented government agencies from publishing pesticide data if doing so would reveal which individual farms or producers used specific pesticides. The bill requires the EPA to report within 180 days on what pesticide records were previously hidden and how to release them, and bars the EPA from issuing rules that would block or delay that disclosure.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is the removal of a privacy carve-out for farm-level pesticide data, converting previously confidential agricultural records into public information. This is fundamentally a transparency/disclosure bill, not a pesticide-regulation bill.
What the text implies
- Farmers' competitive strategies and input costs become visible to competitors, potentially enabling market-based pressure or discrimination based on chemical choices.
- Pesticide manufacturers may face consumer pressure or litigation risk if their products are linked to specific farms or regions through disclosed data.
- The 180-day EPA reporting requirement and the rulemaking prohibition (Section 4) may create implementation challenges if the EPA lacks systems to redact truly identifying information while releasing aggregate or location-specific pesticide use patterns.
- State agricultural agencies and crop insurance companies may gain access to detailed pesticide-use data, shifting information asymmetries in farm lending and insurance markets.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens gain transparency into agricultural pesticide use, enabling informed choices about food sourcing and environmental exposure. However, individual farmers lose privacy regarding their farming practices and chemical inputs, creating a concrete cost to agricultural producers who may face market pressure, liability exposure, or competitive disadvantage from disclosed data.
Who stands to gain
- organic and sustainable agriculture advocates (market differentiation)
- environmental litigation firms (discovery material)
- food retailers and consumer brands (supply-chain transparency claims)
Named in the bill
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, Section 1491(b) of 7 U.S.C., House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, individual agricultural producers/farmers
Where it stands
- Sep 28, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Sep 28, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,589 characters) on Oct 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-10-20.
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