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Kansas Senator sends letter to administration to support crop protection tools

A member of the Senate Ag Committee is asking the Biden administration restore access to critical crop protection tools for producers.

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall tells Brownfield says recent policy changes regulating pesticides won’t improve the environment, while farmers are increasing sustainability efforts. “They’re growing more with less. They’re using precision agriculture to minimize the amount of fertilizer using, to minimize the amount of water they’re using and there are incredible things happening in agriculture.”

Marshall, along with Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Roger Wicker (R-M), recently sent a letter to the President highlighting several examples where new regulations would limit products like Roundup, Glyphosate, Enlist products and Dicamba.

He’s also asking Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to help ensure these products are made available. “Why is he not fighting and communicating to the EPA and the administration how important these pesticides are to growing affordable crops and clean crops as well? I can’t emphasize how much less we are using.”

The letter asks the President to direct all levels of the administration to work with farmers during a period of inflation, record input prices and supply chain disruptions.