Could MAHA Serve As An Opportunity For Agriculture?

The Modern Ag Alliance, a relatively new coalition made up of trade groups from across the country, is working together on key industry priorities.

“So, my members, our partners, are commodity groups; the State Farm Bureaus and many of the national counterparts from all across the country," said Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, coalition executive director.  "So, everything from the corn and soybeans that I grew up with in the middle part of America to sugar beets to blueberries and strawberries and potatoes and canola, and every walk of production and 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 the health and safety of pesticide labels.”

Burns-Thompson said they have been closely following the Make America Healthy Again 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 in tanks and fiber on our backs and things like that, and just how much is done in an efficient, effective, but safe capacity, right? The assurances that consumers are eating safe food and that they're consuming safe products," Burns-Thompson added.  "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.”

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