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New farmer survey shows deep concern for future of crop protection

A new survey from the Modern Ag Alliance says farmers remain concerned about crop protection availability.

Executive director Elizabeth Burns-Thompson says the crop protection industry is under attack.

“There really is a concern about what the growing amount of litigation facing agriculture means for the future of the industry and the success of farming moving forward,” she says. “Consumers are concerned directly about what means for food security as a country as a whole.”

She tells Brownfield the alliance is focused on protecting glyphosate availability.

“We see this as potentially being a bellwether of any chemistry, both those that are on the market today as well as those that that are coming through R&D, could face,” she says. “Today it’s glyphosate that’s under attack, tomorrow it could be any other of the chemistries.”

Brownfield interviewed Burns-Thompson during Commodity Classic in Denver, Colorado.

AUDIO: Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Modern Ag Alliance