Modern Ag Alliance Pushes for Clear, Science‑Based Pesticide Rules

The Modern Ag Alliance is a relatively new coalition made up of trade groups from across the country working together on key industry priorities. Modern Ag Alliance Executive Director Elizabeth Burns-Thompson.

“So my members, our partners, are the commodity groups, the State Farm Bureaus, and many of the national counterparts from all across the country. So everything from the corn and soybean that I grew up with in middle part of America to sugar beets to blueberries and strawberries and potatoes and canola and every walk of really production in row crop agriculture, which is really exciting, we have a lot of organizations so very top, diverse, but very laser focused or pinpointed on solving for regulatory certainty on pesticide labels, specifically around consistency on health and safety of pesticide labels.”

They have been closely following the MAHA initiative and see it as an opportunity for agriculture to highlight how food and fiber are safely and efficiently produced.

“What is putting food on tables and fuel and tanks and fiber on our backs and things like that, and just how much is done in an efficient, effective, but a safe capacity, right? That assurances that consumers are eating safe food and they're consuming safe products. And I think that there were some unfortunate, maybe misconceptions as we move through some of that process, of what are the role of modern-day technologies like pesticides, specifically.”

Elizabeth Burns-Thompson with the Modern Ag Alliance.