The CEO of CropLife America says while pesticide dealers are seeing higher than average prices and supply chain disruptions, they are doing their best to make sure product is available for the 2022 growing season.
Chris Novak tells Brownfield the Texas freeze last winter and Hurricane Ida shut down oil refiners who make some of the ingredients for common pesticides.
“Take those two weather related incidents and then throw in all of the challenges with arrival of port containers, all of the materials we are purchasing from overseas, the trucker shortages, all of those things we know are going to challenge farmers in terms of access and pricing for products this year.”
He says they have worked with EPA to allow substitutions for those ingredients to which help ease their supply issues.
